If you’ve seen Richard Fleisher’s 1973 science fiction masterpiece Soylent Green, then you might know this trivia tidbit: the film was set in New York City in the far-off year of… 2022. In this imagined dystopia, it’s not a good time for the residents of the Big Apple. The population of the boroughs has reached a staggering 40 million, and at one point, Thorn – the central character... Read More →
Oh, 2021. We had such big plans for you. If nothing else, you were destined not to be 2020. And yet, here we are: history (almost) repeating itself in the form of the Covid Omicron variant – which, at the publishing of this piece, is dwarfing the number of daily positive cases that its predecessors achieved. Thankfully, symptoms appear to be mild this time around, and hospitalizations... Read More →
