The world goes crazy because the money stops flowing. Why? George Dyson wrote an essay on current finances in the world. In that essay, he recounts the history of “tallies”, sticks of wood carefully notched to indicate funds and dates. Money deposited in the Exchequer for the use of the king was tallied, accounted…
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decay of structures holding data…
I have photographs my grandmother had taken at a photo studio in San Francisco in 1927. I have other photographs of her dancing with a straw hat through fields in Italy taken in the late 1940’s. I don’t have the negatives, but I do have (black and white) prints, that have stood up pretty…
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