Peace
The Russian Space Station Mir , circa 1992 It's strange to admit that life in the late 1980's and early 1990's was a bit like living in the Dark Ages, compared to now. In those days, we felt as if we had come a long way from the even darker times of the previous years. After many decades of the Cold War, the fall of the Russian Wall gave us the illusion of peace in the world. Instead of looking to the skies with fear inspired by movies like War Games (1983), we occasionally saw the serene light of Mir, passing silently through the stars. A gleam of hope, a heavenly reminder of "Peace" from the Russians. But for all of the technologies that were spun off of the race to put communications satellites in orbit, send humans to the moon, and build space stations in low earth orbit, we were still not much ahead of our grandparents, when it came to everyday modern conveniences in those years. Take photography, for instance. I was still using the same emulsion films...