Apple and The Digital Living Room

Posted on February 23, 2010

About 20 years ago a character named Ray Kinsella in the movie Field of Dreams heard a voice urging him to plow under a portion of his Iowa farm to build a baseball field. Purely on faith he built it.  Soon long deceased legendary players began to show-up for practice. Strangely, only Ray and his family could see the ghosts.

Later the same voice told Ray to visit a famous novelist who had mysteriously stopped writing after the 1960s. In the book upon which the movie is based, that author was J. D. Salinger. Ray brought him back to Iowa where he too could watch the players. Read more…