Actually published!
For a number of years I've felt more than comfortable with what I suppose should be called "self publishing". I post quite regularly to my Hebrew blog, as well as in English here, though I only returned to this format half a year ago, and from month to month I continually ask myself if I can keep this up (or whether there's really any reason to). If I write something that gets "published" somewhere else (primarily in one of the newsletters of groups I'm affiliated with) I'll try to remember to also post it to my static and rarely updated web site. I don't keep statistics on visits to that site and have no idea whether anyone clicks into it to read anything I've written. That particular article, however, isn't only on that web site, but in a real book - a festschrift for one of my favorite teachers, Moshe Caspi. (For some reason I've always called these honoring, or celebratory, books schriftfests, but Wikipedia tells me that I've had things backwards. I'll try and remember this in the future.)
In that article I noted that Caspi often emphasized the importance not only of understanding a phenomenon, but also of being able to experience it. His frequent example was the fact that the encyclopedia was capable of explaining to us the science behind a beautiful sunset, but was totally incapable of appreciating that same breathtaking scene that it explained. The experiencing was our responsibility. I wrote that I looked forward to the day when I'd be able to have the experience and the explanation simultaneously through a tool in my pocket that gave me access to information.
Today I suppose that this doesn't even seem like prescience, and is instead simply stating the obvious. When I take the garbage out at night I glance up to the stars. Sadly, even in a rural community these are considerably less visible than a generation ago, but there are still many to be seen, and I hardly think twice about the wonder of activating one of my sky map apps and pointing my phone up to the sky to identify the stars and planets I'm glancing up at.
Go to: Me too!