Sublime
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Until Edison invented the electric light, most of the world was covered in darkness. The physical darkness outside and the inner darkness of the soul were mixed together, with no boundary separating the two. They were directly linked.
Haruki Murakami • Kafka on the Shore
triplicated.
Arthur C. Clarke • Rendezvous with Rama
“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.”
William Orton, President of Western Union (1876)
De Forest n’aurait pas pu le savoir à l’époque, mais c’est lui qui a inauguré l’ère de l’électronique. Disons pour simplifier que les courants électriques sont des courants d’électrons, et l’Audion fut le premier dispositif qui permettait de contrôler avec précision l’intensité de ces courants.
Nicholas Carr • Internet rend-il bête ? (French Edition)
And the last video touched on my obsession with Nikola Tesla, the Serbian scientific genius, whom I loved for the mixture of science and mysticism in his work. At the time of his death in 1943, he was working on a system for transmitting electricity over great distances without wires—an idea that spoke to my continuing fascination with transferring
... See moreMarina Abramovic • Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
A little more than an hour later, at around 5:30 p.m., Preston walked out of his bedroom for what would be the last time in his life.