What a Tornado Taught Me About Our Stupid Obsession With Gadgets (And Why We Still Love Them)
Two weeks ago today, a tornado ripped through Illinois. At points it was up to a quarter mile wide, and it did enough damage, cracking giant powerlines like toothpicks and yanking old-growth trees right from the ground, that it completely closed the major highway I57 for a 35-mile expanse south of Chicago. I was lucky…
