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Unreadable For Your Eyes Only

Unreadable For Your Eyes Only

I have just abandoned For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming, and I want to tell you why. Most nights, before we go to sleep, I read a little fiction to my wife. We tried it both ways, but it causes my wife to yawn uncontrollably to read out loud, especially at night. We have recently been reading For Your Eyes Only which is a series of short stories about Bond. It’s disappointing for a number of reasons. I had…

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Equal rights, and the future we lost

Equal rights, and the future we lost

In 1843, Ada Lovelace wrote a book. Ostensibly it was a translation of some notes of a lecture by Charles Babbage. The Italian author, whose notes needed to be translated, were focused on the mathematical capabilities of Babbage’s machine. Lovelace – and only Lovelace – grasped the power of Babbage’s machine to change society [1]; to introduce an Information Age. The world in which we now live – in the first half of the twenty first century – was imagined…

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