Does tech make for a more fulfilling life

Is your life more valuable and better spent than your parents, than their parents, than your great grand-parents? Has technology and modern society made our lives better, do we get to do more important things with our lives?

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Panic at the Dop Shop

There was a rumour floating about that there would be another presidential address this evening. The content of this predicted address, and not the address itself, apparently resulted in “brisk trading” in the local liquor outlets.

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A tale of one man and two air crashes

It’s September 30, 1951, two Douglas AD Skyraiders (later renamed the Douglas A-1 Skyraider) are en-route to Mather Field in Sacramento from Naval Air Station Seattle. It’s a routine flight for this pair of single-seater torpedo/dive bombers which served in WWII as part of the United States Navy.

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