Darrin Mortenson

While I'm rarely one to let someone else speak for me, I credit a New Yorker cartoon I saw via Facebook for saying it all: A man in a tattered suit sits with a few children around a campfire telling a story. He says, "Yes, the planet was destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for our shareholders."

After more than a decade working as a journalist for newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and abroad, I'm taking some valuable time to enhance my techno-quiver and deepen my understanding of interactive media to help make sure that cartoon remains just that -- a joke. When I'm not writing for Truthout.org or Time.com, surfing in Mexico or studying shamanism in Peru, you'll usually find me with students at Quinnipiac University, on the demo line or deep in the library at Yale.