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Writing the above paragraph, I was put in mind of the famous
opening of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities: “It was
the best of times, it was the worst of times.” But maybe the
truly relevant book isn’t A Tale of Two Cities, but The Time
Machine, with its vision of a nightmarish future in which the
two classes of society, the delicate Eloi and the brutish
Morlocks, have diverged so completely that they don’t even
look the same anymore. Are we headed for bifurcated future
ourselves? I know that the $50,000 home, the $10,000 car,
and the $25,000 college education have vanished. But does the
$50 dinner have to go that way too? My inner Morlock hopes
not.
Ozersky, author of The Hamburger: A History, is a James
Beard Award–winning food writer. His most recent book,
Colonel Sanders and the American Dream, was published in May
2012. The views expressed are solely his own.
We love the Lebron James headband, the Great Britain rowing
team and tiny LEGO celebrations, complete with miniature gold
medals. The Guardian newspaper’s website hosted a bounty of
Olympic-specific reenactments, mostly from individual sports
during this past summer’s games. But for a quick London
Olympics recap, this highlight video does the trick.
There is a new smartphone app in Japan that stinks.
Literally.
RocketNews24, a Japanese news website, reports that a company
called Chaku Perfume claims its new product Chat Perf is
designed to send smells via iPhone. An attachment made up of
an atomizer and a smell tank fits into an iPhone’s dock
