Drama and Politics in the House of Commons
April 20, 2016
On 2 May 1997, after suffering a heavy election defeat at the hands of Tony Blair, the outgoing British prime minister John Major told the assembled media on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street that ‘when the curtain falls, it is time to get off the stage’, Richard Gaunt writes. There could hardly have been …
Will Big Data “Disrupt” Historical Knowledge?
April 1, 2016
Arthur C. Clarke’s story The Nine Billion Names of God tells of a remote Tibetan monastery in which the monks have spent decades, perhaps centuries, listing the innumerable names of the deity with the aim of hastening the apocalypse. The narrator, a Western expert who has been asked to supply a powerful computer to help …
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