A brief commentary on science and technology.

There's a very precise difference between Science and Technology which is the difference between theoretical knowledge and practical use. This is as simple as the fact that science is no more that the study of, meaning it's just the exercise of getting to know a subject, of exploring it and finding new things about it. On the other hand, technology goes as far as to be the application of, the practical side of it; scientific knowledge is taken and applied to the real world, it's made usable and available, that's the essence of technology.

"Under my tree the roots frown at you"

"Ding-Dong! Who is it? It's me! Oh! What a happy surprise!"

"Hello, my name is train"

Let's paint reality imagination color!

"I believe that if you go deep enough into characters they become so real that their stories feel like make-believe. They feel like fiction. I want to evoke the fictional current that flows beneath the stream of reality"

-Gay Talese

Well, this is a simple facade that Guy Talese wants to set up in front of reality; a fantastic facade. It, reality, sometimes, gets unbearably boring, and so, it is necessary to paint it a different color: the weirder and exotic the better, imagination being the pinacle. Guy talese is just one of the others who understood reality is just way too boring for it not to have some spices on top.

Comparing two friends who, almost never, meet each other.

Journalism: Per se, journalism is a discipline which feeds on its brief and evanescent life time. The practice of journalism is based on the need-to-know that the audience has and thus, as the need to know fades, so does the importance of the reported event. Journalism is the repetitive and ephemeral investigation for things people are hungry for. Even if the text itself might be quite good, it stops being useful of meaningful, or at the very least looses part of its “soul” just by the fact that the reported news are, as times goes by, old news, and news who get old are no longer relevant news.

Literature: Has an inherent sense of eternity and timelessness. The value of the words, if there’s any to them in first place of course, is within themselves; all by themselves the words in Literature should convey a message and shouldn’t need any outer factor, other than a reader, to have a meaning. It is art. It conveys a part of the author as well as absorbs part of the reader. It is mutual foreplay, giving and taking in an endless cycle of phrases, words and ideas.