'[the self-sufficient common man] cannot even make his breakfast without using devices, more or less mysterious to him, which expertise has put at his disposal'

📚 gilbert murray's 'five stages of greek religion'

pleasant reading of a pleasantly researched topic. it has made it into my collection of mandatory yearly re-read 💯

📚the sciences of the artificial
— herbert a simon

‘you know, if we could put that on a credit card, it might make it more secure.’

processors. antennas.

— george polya

‘more and more i find i want to be living in a big here and a long now.’ — brian eno

i find it quite interesting the things we take for granted in modern computer programming. like the typically simple & beautiful ‘var := val’ assignment protocol. here’s tony hoare laboriously specifying behavior, perhaps with hardware in mind www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f...

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