For my generation, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and the war in general now represent the equivalent of a cultural "game over" or "reset" button. Through a combination of conscious policy and unconscious culture, the painful memories and images of the war have lost their context, surfacing only as twisted echoes in our subculture. The result, for better and worse, is that, 60 years after Hiroshima, we dwell more on the future than the past.

Joi Ito has an editorial in the New York Times today about the 60th anniversary of the atomic bomb being dropped.

(Yes, I'm going to start blogging about things other than Mike again..)

An Anniversary to Forget - New York Times