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How We Might See the End of the Information Age
Let’s head straight to the core issue—artificial intelligence, computing that does human-like thinking and action, makes decisions, and ultimately is...
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That Tammany Boy: Henry Root Stern, Sr.
When Henry Root Stern met Theodore Roosevelt, he was introduced as that Tammany boy—a Democrat associated with the corrupt political machine. Despite...
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Phobia of Deflation
How can we explain deflation phobia of our rulers? How to explain the history of anti-gold populism? In this chapter the authors discuss these...
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In Dreams Begins Responsibility
InResponsibility 2017, Elon Musk claimed that, by the end of the year, a Tesla would be able to drive ‘from a parking lot in California to a...
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Introduction
In the 1950s, the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association began an oral history project that interviewed family, friends, and contemporaries of the...
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Setting the Scene
The answer to that question has become less straightforward than when it was described in the first edition. As will become clear through the revised...
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Childhood and Other Mysteries (1889-1909)
On a crisp fall morning, November 14, 1899, as steam hissed from under the massive iron horse at the front of the train waiting to transport him and...
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Louis Pouzin’s Youth (1931–1952)
Once upon a time there was a bright and clever child who had an atypical education within a modest family in central France, in the Nièvre...
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Modern and Orrery Times Compared
Unpredicted as well as expected natural events have always been facts of life, as has social and technological evolution. Sitting in our comfy...
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Childhood Homes
Florence Nightingale had a privileged childhood, but not one in which she felt fully at home. This chapter explores the social, ideological, and...
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‘A Song in the Night’: Reconsidering John Clare’s Later Asylum Poetry
This chapter considers the critical status of John Clare’s asylum poetry, especially the later poems of the Northampton asylum period. Drawing in...
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Two Film Festivals: San Sebastián, Guadalajara; Two Institutions: Cineteca, Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica
This opening chapter on film explores the industrial context: two festivals (the first a “bridge” between Spain and Latin America, the second the...
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The Tuna Dukes
Supported by their tuna monopoly and its profits, the Guzmán dynasty succeeded in strengthening their powerbase through useful alliances in the wars...
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Classical Astronomy
In this chapter we focus on Classical and Hellenistic Greece, looking in detail at their astronomy (which was in part imported from Babylon and...
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Trump’s Electoral Politics
Trump’s primary and presidential election victories were by any measure extraordinary and unexpected. But despite much talk of a populist uprising,...
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Period 1: London—Birth of a New Order (1558–1659)
This Introduction looks at the growth of London and Westminster from the accession of Queen Elizabeth I (when it was already a busy port and a...
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The Teacher
Oscar Wilde’s wariness of formal education would surface time and again in his published work—for instance, in An Ideal Husband when the profligate...
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Mission Invisible
This book is a work of fiction; it tells an invented story, taking the reader on an imaginary journey around the world on science business. Any...
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Bilthoven: Playground for the Elite (1925–1938). Primary School and High School
As mentioned earlier, Nico was born in Dordrecht on 11 March 1920. In 1921 or 1922 he moved to Vlaardingen.
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Corruption in North America: Canada and the United States
Neither Canada nor the United States is corrupt according to global standards and the critical measurement indexes. But both harbor pockets of...