Help In These Times reach its five-week $10,000 online fundraising goal! With two weeks left, we're only halfway there. Donate now!

Trapped in Decline Culture

By Margaret Morganroth Gullette

The “Face Aging” booth at the Boston Museum of Science attracted the longest lines of children. ¶ Access was forbidden to those over 15, so I watched from outside. The youngsters had their photographs taken and soon their digitized image appeared on a TV monitor. Then, tapping a button like a VCR remote, each child could call up simulations of what… return to article

Article Appeared in this Issue

Full contents
Past issues

Also by Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Popular Discussions