Musk's Mars Mission will Founder on our Stone Age Brain. The failed Interweb reveals that the cognitive limits of human expansion are not technical but social and psychological.
It's the water in which we swim. The alternative is to drop out of mainstream society all together. Perhaps that's the thing to do. But then I have kids who need to get on in the world. They will be mobile, move around....and I will be dependent on 'instagram' to see what they are up to. The once piece of tech I need is a one way Time Machine - big enough to carry a Vincent Black Lightening back to Northumberland 1935
There is also a great song my Martin Simpson about his dad, coming back from the Great War....and not being able to hold down a job, or marriage but fly fishing, bird watching, learning the names of flowers - on the back of a Norton think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBq2upq_AG8
It's the water in which we swim. The alternative is to drop out of mainstream society all together. Perhaps that's the thing to do. But then I have kids who need to get on in the world. They will be mobile, move around....and I will be dependent on 'instagram' to see what they are up to. The once piece of tech I need is a one way Time Machine - big enough to carry a Vincent Black Lightening back to Northumberland 1935
There is also a great song my Martin Simpson about his dad, coming back from the Great War....and not being able to hold down a job, or marriage but fly fishing, bird watching, learning the names of flowers - on the back of a Norton think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBq2upq_AG8
Ah yes I saw him play that in the Red Lion in Birmingham, double billed with Gaughan sometime in the early 90s I think