by Vinoth Ramachandra | Jan 17, 2011 | Opinion
One of the characters in the film “The Social Network” delivers what is intended as a generation-defining line: “We lived on farms, then we lived in cities, and now we’re gonna live on the Internet.” A scary thought. What kind of life is...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Dec 22, 2010 | Opinion
Christmas is here once again. The season for forced jollity at office parties and, of course, the end-of-the-year bank bonuses. Five American banking giants have stashed away $90 billion for their prize employees. The big PR problem the bankers face, whether in the...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Dec 13, 2010 | Opinion
Not only outer space, but our inner spaces too, are being militarized. On the first day of its launch last month, the computer game “Call of Duty: Black Ops” sold 3.6 million copies and fetched more than $360 million in the U.S., Canada and Britain alone....
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Nov 29, 2010 | Opinion
I am told that at the recent Lausanne Congress in Cape Town, South Africa, a popular American preacher and author vigorously asserted that evangelism – understood as the verbal proclamation of the Gospel – was the Church’s foremost “priority.” Since...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Nov 9, 2010 | Opinion
Recently, I visited the demilitarized zone on the border between North and South Korea. This is the last frontier of the Cold War, and the zone is anything but demilitarized. The tension is palpable. South Korean guards stand to attention facing the north, their...
