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Where's the rest of the article? Is there a rest of it? It gets to the end of what feels like the introduction, and then just... stops.
by tom_ 1mo ago
Where's the rest of the article? Is there a rest of it? It gets to the end of what feels like the introduction, and then just... stops.
- Caracas288 1mo agoIt’s formatted strangely… an excerpt from the book at the bottom of the page? The authors don’t match. Or maybe that footnote’s for the images… It doesn’t need to be any longer; one of the ironic byproducts of our newest computer companions is that, even in the age of short-form content, they produce reams of rubbish, very rarely containing anything of consequence. This, in contrast, is refreshing. [Edit] doh, the reference is explained in the first line of the thing.
- suddenlybananas 1mo agoI also can't tell when it was written exactly, given the reference to typists and file clerks being replaced "during the past twenty years".
- Caracas288 1mo agoDefinitely seems 20th century given the novelty around computers. The audio inclusion is beautiful, hardly see anything like that anywhere else, with music too.
- malfist 1mo ago20 years ago would have been 2006. Hardly a bunch of secretaries banging on typewriters back then. Hell that was when MySpace started to fall apart
- pahbloo 1mo agohttps://engines.egr.uh.edu/ https://engines.egr.uh.edu/ > The Engines of Our Ingenuity tells how human creativity forms our culture, using radio and podcasts. > This site holds transcripts of all episodes since the show's inception in 1988, and many other features.
- Caracas288 1mo agoHa! it pays to do a little research, I should have done so. So it's something like 'Thought for the Day' on the radio...
- dredmorbius 1mo ago1999, from some digging. Now noted in the title.
- throw0101d 1mo ago> Where's the rest of the article? Is there a rest of it? The "article" is the transcript of a radio segment/story (the audio clip at the top).
- dredmorbius 1mo agoThe podcast the article is based on runs only 3m38s, so the text length seems about right. Public radio used to have spots for short features at the end of flagship programming, slots that are now almost universally filled by sponsorship slots. (That's one of the things which has made listening to radio, even public radio, in the US, far more tedious to me.)