I am not cynical, but I got enough rational programming in life to know that quasi-literate Roman demagogues had no idea what a microchip is, and were more worr

I am not cynical, but I got enough rational programming in life to know that quasi-literate Roman demagogues had no idea what a microchip is, and were more worried about the threatening excesses of Nero than the bumptuous innovations of slightly more literate entrepreneurs whom, two thousand years later, history will regard as even less notable blips on the western cultural radar