You’re an interesting person. I hope you gather information on the history of women an families in the US. Genealogy is a wonderful platform for understanding a history of society that wasn’t written or influenced by industry; it is the human history of what we believe about ourselves. I hope you have some time to write about your grandfather as a social person and how that related to his history. Ask him about his parents.

I wonder if people who immigrated to the West aren’t a gypsy breed who are forever destined to push the edge changed. My greatgrandparents were land developers there in the early 1900’s. My mother was raised by my greatgrandmother so I want to jog her memory and correlate that social trail to historical fact. I think the building of the West has close similarities to globalization today.

Tom Friedman seems to have a moist-eyed view of a ‘flat world’, perhaps in retrospect what we see is who got flattened. What I have gathered is people with benevolent intentions tended to bump into that bloody edge of discovery. It wasn’t something everyone wanted to do or survived. I wonder how much of your interest in technology was a biological need to be on that edge. I wonder if this isn’t also important to the history of women.