Marvellous!

[eponymousarchon]

"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." 

-- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

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[eponymousarchon.livejournal.com]

Problem is, I'm far from convinced that parliament is any more clued-up now - and the world is getting *more* technological, not less.