"Oxford and Cambridge does not have its thumbprint on all of that," he says. "It's actually quite hard to get your arms around how it even works, what it even is." But if I were putting money on their existence 500 years from now, the chance is high, higher than for other institutions,. Nevertheless, the point you're making about did it launch the next movement? How close was it to the digital revolution?"

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