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It’s formatted strangely… an excerpt from the book at the bottom of the page? The authors don’t match. Or maybe that footnote’s for the images… It doesn’t need
by Caracas288 27d ago
It’s formatted strangely… an excerpt from the book at the bottom of the page? The authors don’t match. Or maybe that footnote’s for the images…
It doesn’t need to be any longer; one of the ironic byproducts of our newest computer companions is that, even in the age of short-form content, they produce reams of rubbish, very rarely containing anything of consequence.
This, in contrast, is refreshing.
[Edit] doh, the reference is explained in the first line of the thing.
- suddenlybananas 27d agoI also can't tell when it was written exactly, given the reference to typists and file clerks being replaced "during the past twenty years".
- Caracas288 27d agoDefinitely seems 20th century given the novelty around computers. The audio inclusion is beautiful, hardly see anything like that anywhere else, with music too.
- malfist 27d ago20 years ago would have been 2006. Hardly a bunch of secretaries banging on typewriters back then. Hell that was when MySpace started to fall apart
- pahbloo 27d agohttps://engines.egr.uh.edu/ https://engines.egr.uh.edu/ > The Engines of Our Ingenuity tells how human creativity forms our culture, using radio and podcasts. > This site holds transcripts of all episodes since the show's inception in 1988, and many other features.
- Caracas288 27d agoHa! it pays to do a little research, I should have done so. So it's something like 'Thought for the Day' on the radio...
- dredmorbius 27d ago1999, from some digging. Now noted in the title.