Something Good #108: Where Do Our Words Go When They Die?

One of my favourite gigs during my years of sporadic freelance employment was as a writer and researcher for a popular technology podcast. This show, let’s call it Pathfinders , had a very very well-known host—we’ll call him “William Josephson” 1 —who was famous for writing doorstopper biographies about technological innovators. It was underwritten by a large computer manufacturer, call them…