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Fiction from Bruce Sterling: "If you can read a popular-science publication (and enjoy it), then you most likely have enough brainpower to help us make massive scientific breakthroughs..."
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Der Massschuhmacher Béla Bálint über seine Vorlieben an Männer- und Frauenfüssen, über seine besten Kunden und darüber, was man alles mit Champagner anstellen kann.
The Cold War computing race from the Russian side, including the development of the MESM -- for 'Small Electronic Counting Machine' -- powered by more than 6000 vacuum tubes.
Terminator is a cross-platform GPL terminal emulator with advanced features not yet found elsewhere.
In his closing talk from last month's Reboot conference in Copenhagen, Bruce Sterling guesses at what it will be like to live through the next ten years: 'It is neither progress nor conservatism because there's nothing left to conserve and no direction in which to progress. So what you get is transition. Transition to nowhere.'