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Thursday, December 29, 2016

From Elon’s love of “Hitchhiker’s” to Zuckerberg’s Greek epics: How literature has inspired technology

Mark Twain is best known for all-American novels like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. But he was also a forward-thinking futurist. Back in 1898, in his short story From The London Times, Twain described a gadget called the ...


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