Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Column: What do we see?

“Cyberspace is a funhouse mirror of our own society.”

Bruce Sterling

During the previous century (late 1990s), when I told a friend I was moving to Meeker she flinched. She’d recently been on a cross-country flight and her seatmate turned out to be from Meeker. They’d told her the town wasn’t welcoming, friendly, or a good place for newcomers. Several years later, a Glenwood dentist reviewed my chart while we waited for the novocaine to…