teaperson writes “The most-emailed story today on Boston.com is “Vast library, thoughts of John Adams displayed“. The Boston Public Library has put on display his private library, with the books open so you can read choice marginalia. The library is also digitizing Adams’s papers, for those who can’t get to Copley Square.
A bit more on the exhibit at the BPL website.”
Perpendicular Drives
I don’t understand how it works but that is freaking amazing.
Re:Perpendicular Drives
Arthur C. Clarke said it long ago: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
As some other writer who dabbles in fantasy as well as science fiction eventually responded: Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
And it’s still fundamentally a six-decades-old electromechanical technology, theoretically obsolete for at least ten or twenty years now…