Quote:Would there be a "steamtronics" equivalent to the Internet, for instance?As soon as I read this, I thought of the pneumatic message pipes that were in offices and large department stores in the mid-20th century, writ large.
Talk about a "network of tubes"...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012