Re:Unlimited Information Is Transforming Society
by jimmyvalmer on Sunday September 06, 2020 @06:53PM
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TL;DR
Better title: "Where are all the flying cars?" A 3500-word survey of what
worked (transistor-enabled computing and the internet) and what didn't (space
travel and nuclear) post-WW2. As an alum of the author's employer, I never
thought much of that "field of concentration" known as HistOfSci. Matt Damon's
observation about library late charges was spot-on.
Better title: "Where are all the flying cars?" A 3500-word survey of what worked (transistor-enabled computing and the internet) and what didn't (space travel and nuclear) post-WW2. As an alum of the author's employer, I never thought much of that "field of concentration" known as HistOfSci. Matt Damon's observation about library late charges was spot-on.