blog! “The absurdity of technocracy”
Punch was a satirical magazine first published in Victorian London. It had a long and noble history of poking fun at... well, just about every fashionable idea of the day. Anyone who pricked the public's conscious probably found themselves lampooned within its pages. Charles Babbage - inventor of the first mechanical computer - found himself…
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@Edent "I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
Apparently the impatient nerdslap has also always been a thing!