Dr. Roger Korby and Amdnarg Toh are the two technology writers for Nerd City, which is as it should be. Anytime I write about technology I always seem to come across as a cranky Luddite. And I’m sure this article will seem to be no exception.

But let me say from the outset that computers, the internet and technology in general are not the main players in what follows. I’ve been musing on culture lately. But I have to discuss technological trends to do it.

I can really say this in one sentence: Through the wonders of the internet, there is a potential democracy of voices like never before.

I’ve been somewhat out of action lately, and you all get to be rewarded. Here’s some movies I’ve been watching:

Mystery Date (1991)

Ok… since I’ve now embraced this bluegrass “funk” in which I find myself, I thought I’d elaborate on some of the more interesting musical experiences of my youth. If you didn’t grow up in the south with parents that had a penchant for southern gospel music, then you may not even have heard of these, much less seen them played live. I’ve seen ‘em all.

If you have not heard, Ms. Munroe recently married T’Challa, a.k.a. Black Panther, and is now Queen of Wakanda, quite a step up from princess of some remote tribe in Kenya…oh, and smoking hot leader of the X-Men. Some would not have seen the beauty of little Orphan Ororo, but T’Challa fell in love at a young age. When a little 12-year-old street thug saved him from racist gang bangers. Storm was always the hero, even as a thief.

The other day at work some colleagues and I got into a rather enjoyable conversation about Moore’s Law (I know, you’re thinking about the countless number of times this has happened to yourself). The Moore from “Moore’s Law” is Gordan Moore, one of the co-founders of Intel. In 1965 he observed that the number of transistors (tiny electronic on/off switches) that could inexpensively be placed on an integrated circuit doubles every year. This has held true for the last 40 years but we may be approaching the physical limits of what is possible with our current technology.

Scientists are working on technology that may power the computers of the future. These are all currently at very early stages in their research and if you were to see one of these future “computers” it would probably just look like some random lab equipment strung out across a laboratory work bench.