Kevin Kelly has compiled a bunch of reviews of documentaries on his Cool Tools site. I want to go out and get every one. He just sent out the latest batch to subscribers to his Cool Tools mailing list, which he hasn't put on his site yet. I'm sure he'll get around to it soon. In the meantime, here's an excerpt from one of his latest reviews (for Colonial House):
The premise is somewhat familiar now. Take a hopelessly modern family and stick them in the past, as authenticated by historians, and make them live with only the tools and resources available centuries ago. In this case, the modern Americans are sent to live in the summer of 1628, on a forested island off of Maine. Their task: build a new world colony that can both survive and pay back its investors in England. … Cameras record every detail as the pudgy newcomers scrounge for food, learn how to farm Indian corn and build with the most rudimentary tools, all the while wearing appropriate clothes, slowly starving, and assuming appropriate roles such as indentured servants with astounding ease. Who knew how easy devolution was?
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