Robotics is transforming housekeeping into a science. Catharine Beecher was reared in a God-fearing Calvinist home in which the state of her soul and the threat of hellfire were never far from awareness. Born at the turn of the nineteenth century in a Long Island village so remote it…
Become a founder. In his sixties, American historian and novelist Henry Adams began to write his autobiography.[1] He had been born in 1838 into a family that included two presidents.[2] He graduated from Harvard, joined his father as a diplomatic secretary in London during the US Civil War,…
Our societies are largely anti–life span and prodeath. When we upgrade to Human 2.0, we may look back on the present as our savage history.[1] Consider the following diary entries from Mary Vial Holyoke, a New England woman born in 1737: Jan. 8, 1764. First wore my…
Technological conservativism is a hangover from the ancient world. Instead of punishing explorers, embolden them to transcend the known world. In the first volume of her two-part exegesis The Woman’s Bible (1895, 1898), Elizabeth Cady Stanton challenged the consensus that Eve of the Genesis creation story was a…