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Laser Versus Parchment: Doomsday for the Disc

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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How Ignoring the Past can Lead to Historical Distortion

George Orwell's 1984 warned of a totalitarian state rewriting history, erasing the past until the lie became truth. However, we don't need a dictatorship to forget the past; we just need to stop paying attention.

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