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Airships, AI and Alan Cumming: Tim Answers Your Questions
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy
The laser disc was supposed to be a time capsule that would last hundreds of years using this super modern technology. But within 15 years, it became a genuine problem to find any system that was capable of actually reading the laser discs. So I'm just drawing out what the lessons are and these kind of heroic nerd efforts to get the data back. The laser disc would have been wrong if I was writing it today.
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