They were remarkably good, if you can forgive being excitable about agriculture and confused about what electricity is (hint: it is not the Holy Ghost).
I like the fact that they have fallen into the same trap all futurists do: assuming that new technology will be used to trasmit news of battles or opera arias. Then it falls into the grubby hands of human beings and the photograph we're telegraphing to china is of a cat stuck in a radiator.
Ha ha ha ha ha! Stupid people who don't know about the present!
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'To England in two days?'
It'll never happen.
They were remarkably good, if you can forgive being excitable about agriculture and confused about what electricity is (hint: it is not the Holy Ghost).
I like the fact that they have fallen into the same trap all futurists do: assuming that new technology will be used to trasmit news of battles or opera arias. Then it falls into the grubby hands of human beings and the photograph we're telegraphing to china is of a cat stuck in a radiator.
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