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zeteo
on Feb 14, 2011
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Peter Norvig: The machine age
"To people from a hundred years ago we'd be the most outlandish science fiction story ever told."
You'd be surprised:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_in_the_Twentieth_Century#...
derleth
on Feb 14, 2011
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Technology is one thing; society is another: I doubt anyone from the 19th Century could possibly imagine a debate over gay marriage. A crazy promoting it getting beaten down by a righteous world, possibly, but not a debate.
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