Fascinating
Things I learned, liked, or don't yet understand
Fascinating
This article, though absurdly long, is so visually and interactively appealing. I’ve also always wondered about undersea cable maintenance, and I had no idea how it was done or how often it was done, or by whom it was done.
Yes. Word processing is bad.
Before it, document length was bounded by the human capacity to copy long-form text & about to plateau.
After word processing, the tax & legal codes grew without check. And became incomprehensible to anyone but career experts. https://t.co/TCbEfRMONp
Word processing enabled unbounded growth of tax code