The Maya are hardly a vanished people, for they number at least 7.5 million souls, the largest block of American Indians north of Peru. In 2005 I had the good fortune of spending 2 weeks in a small Maya village, as a volunteer for an archaeological dig. It was not the mysterious ancient ruins that captured my imagination, but the colorful, charismatic K'iche Maya who live at the site today. This blog follows my journey to learn of and from this beautiful modern culture.
From Philip's personal Journal... dated 5-31-2005
posted by Philip Loring @ 10:08 PM
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Born in Massachusetts, I spent the best years of my childhood in a coastal town in Southern Maine. I started down the road to digital enlightenment (enslavement?) as a young boy when mom brought home my first personal computer -- a Commodore Pet. For the 20 years that followed, I was in rapture of the latent, untapped potential of the ethereal 1's and 0's. As a classically trained philosopher I avoided the traps most of my contemporary technologists fell victim to, in order to develop what I think is will be a progressive vision for our industry. To that end, I've taken a self-imposed exile from tech. I now study anthropology at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, where I hope to relearn how to make a good tool from some of the most resilient and adaptive people on the earth: the indigenous natives of the circumpolar north.
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