TOPIC: Kids don't need VCR Plus+.

This week, Dan and Merlin continue their series on updates.

The topic this week is all about media consumption—in particular, the massive changes to how they learn about, locate, obtain, schedule, and consume media over the past decade or so.

Sure, there's the usual old man talk about how How It Used To Be, but there's a heavy focus on how these changes are changing the way media is funded and produced. What's that media landscape gonna look like when a 5-year-old playing with an iPad becomes the producer of media in a very few years?

Links for this episode:

• iOS, Android, and macOS Apps Now Open Source | Simplenote
  
• The Inner Light (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• The Measure of a Man (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Star Trek: The Next Generation In 40 Hours — Maxistentialism Blog — Medium
  
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine In 82.5 Hours — Maxistentialism Blog — Medium
  
• Random Trek | "Death Wish" (VOY) with Merlin Mann (Episode 55)
  
• Creamed, Canned And Frozen: How The Great Depression Revamped U.S. Diets : The Salt : NPR
  Do people think about food more in times of scarcity than in times of plenty? Married culinary historians Jane Ziegelman and Andy Coe think so. Ziegelman and Coe are the authors of A Square Meal, which examines the impact of the country's decade-long Great Depression on American diets.