01-05-2017, 02:28 PM
(01-05-2017, 01:26 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(01-05-2017, 08:00 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: I always considered it a terrible waste that Noskwith didn't go into tech. He could have done so much. Oh well, I suppose it didn't float his boat.
It wasn't the family business.
Did you realize that the British were on the brink of a high-tech revolution at the end of the Second World War, only to give up on it abruptly? They could have had a five-year lead on the USA based upon the knowledge of computing technology that they got from code-breaking at Bletchley Park. Other priorities?
Americans didn't have war damage to replace. The British had much wreckage thanks to the Luftwaffe.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.