“Every attempt to pass, or every passing of fiat laws, of false measurements, in any area of life or thought, is an attempt to play God, it is an attempt to bypass work as the means of productivity and its eventual result is slavery and disaster. We must remember that consequence, a...
Marianne and Connell get to know each other because Connell’s mother is a cleaner who works in Marianne’s palatial house. This income gap is beautifully drawn in little details such as “[His mother] put a box of own-brand cornflakes in the press.” The two main characters first connect...
“The Mother of All Demos” is a name retroactively applied to a landmark computer demonstration, given at the Association for Computing Machinery / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (ACM/IEEE)—Computer Society’s Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, by Douglas Engelbart...