The Green Dot Problem

🔊 Listen to this post &#xA; A little green dot appears next to a name. &#xA; That is all. &#xA; A speck of color. A pea-sized promise. It tells us almost nothing, and yet our nervous systems rush in to supply the missing story. Someone is here. Someone is paying attention. Someone can answer. Someone is, in the oldest sense, present. &#xA; But lately I keep thinking that the green dot has become…