Comments on: Monkey Bards http://malcolmpollack.com/2006/08/09/monkey-bards/ I go many places Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:57:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Malcolm http://malcolmpollack.com/2006/08/09/monkey-bards/comment-page-1/#comment-21669 Malcolm Fri, 11 Aug 2006 03:01:51 +0000 http://malcolmpollack.com/?p=301#comment-21669 Hi Peter, Well, your point is well taken, although anyone who has spent a summer in New York knows that the most important invention of all time - the high-water mark of human achievement - is of course the <em>air conditioner</em>, whose obsolescence is nowhere in sight. Hi Peter,

Well, your point is well taken, although anyone who has spent a summer in New York knows that the most important invention of all time – the high-water mark of human achievement – is of course the air conditioner, whose obsolescence is nowhere in sight.

]]> By: the one eyed man http://malcolmpollack.com/2006/08/09/monkey-bards/comment-page-1/#comment-21664 the one eyed man Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:56:04 +0000 http://malcolmpollack.com/?p=301#comment-21664 You could make the case that what is arguably the most important invention in the history of man -- the invention of movable type, as characterized by a typewriter -- became obsolescent over the past ten years or so and its obsolescence was barely even noticed. You could make the case that what is arguably the most important invention in the history of man — the invention of movable type, as characterized by a typewriter — became obsolescent over the past ten years or so and its obsolescence was barely even noticed.

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