When walking into work on Wednesday, I noticed that the Washington Post was sold out of the machine I pass every day. This is the first time that has happened since I started this job. This simple fact is that people want a real newspaper for a souvenir. No one wants a crappy internet printout. [...]
I voted today in Virginia using an electronic voting machine. However, Virginia and Maryland are both moving back to low tech paper ballots for future elections. There is concern about electronic voting machines crashing or being hacked. Christian Davenport reports in the Washington Post: Goodbye, electronic voting. Farewell, fancy touch screen. Maryland and Virginia are [...]
My wife and I caught the original Terminator movie on free tv this weekend. Terminator is a great action-adventure movie where ordinary citizen Sarah Connor battles a hi-tech machine. The star of the movie series, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, made news this weekend by campaigning with Senator John McCain. Carl Campanile reports in the NY [...]
Since John McCain may not be such a low-tech candidate after all, it now appears that Low-Tech Times founder S.P. Gass may be running for president with a groundswell of support. Tweet