by 51A » Sat 21 Feb, 2015 12:30 am
adam wrote:... but not much more.
Some suggestions for required reading in the build up to May, or just more generally.
I kick things off by giving you the slightly-odd-at-first-glance suggestion of...
Our Future: Doctor Magnus Pyke Predicts
Partly because, published in 1980, it's quite good fun, but mainly because of a clear and fundamental understanding running through it all that, of course, if things do get better then the benefits will be shared amongst everyone and all will do well. There is a real absence of the thatcherite 'winners and losers' ethos. I don't know (and with the usual minimal research I can't find) anything much about his politics, although according to wikipedia he wrote a book in the early 60s called 'The Science Myth' which questioned the human cost of developing technologies and the organisation of western society around a very technological idea of progress, which is quite interesting.
You can buy his predictions book on
Ebay for not very much.
Gosh, just found out that his 1970s series "Don't Ask Me" was a Yorkshire Television thing, I hope the rest of the world got to see it too. I was living in Yorkshire then, having been born there, you just take for granted when you're a kid that what's on your telly is on everyone's. Hope it was, it was a joy, as was he.
Re: Everyone benefitting: Tim Berners-Lee is now regretting his gift, because not all do. Sadly, mankind is often unkind. It troubles me why all the time.
[quote="adam"]... but not much more.
Some suggestions for required reading in the build up to May, or just more generally.
I kick things off by giving you the slightly-odd-at-first-glance suggestion of...
Our Future: Doctor Magnus Pyke Predicts
[img]http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NjkzWDQyOQ==/z/W8kAAOxykmZTMbCB/$_35.JPG[/img]
Partly because, published in 1980, it's quite good fun, but mainly because of a clear and fundamental understanding running through it all that, of course, if things do get better then the benefits will be shared amongst everyone and all will do well. There is a real absence of the thatcherite 'winners and losers' ethos. I don't know (and with the usual minimal research I can't find) anything much about his politics, although according to wikipedia he wrote a book in the early 60s called 'The Science Myth' which questioned the human cost of developing technologies and the organisation of western society around a very technological idea of progress, which is quite interesting.
You can buy his predictions book on [url=http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NjkzWDQyOQ==/z/W8kAAOxykmZTMbCB/$_35.JPG]Ebay[/url] for not very much.[/quote]
Gosh, just found out that his 1970s series "Don't Ask Me" was a Yorkshire Television thing, I hope the rest of the world got to see it too. I was living in Yorkshire then, having been born there, you just take for granted when you're a kid that what's on your telly is on everyone's. Hope it was, it was a joy, as was he.
Re: Everyone benefitting: Tim Berners-Lee is now regretting his gift, because not all do. Sadly, mankind is often unkind. It troubles me why all the time.
