A great history of early computer science, from a logician's point of view, is The Universal Computer by Martin Davis. www.amazon.com/Universal-Co...
Martin was himself an important figure in the history of computer science and logic (and a dear friend -- I will always miss him).

Venue? Date? Time?

Unions & the income tax were facets of the progressive movement, which was broadly anti-monopoly. We need a pile of that today. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progres...

Unions, the income tax (1913), the Great Depression all combined. I'd bet the Depression was the death knell.

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Pull the plug and it becomes incapable of doing bad things.

cublets->cubelets. Thank you autocorrect?

Robinson Crusoe on Mars is the first movie I went to see by myself, in 1964, when I was 13. (Solo trip on the bus to the theater in a strange part of town, not something that kids do any more!) I still think of it fondly.

And Julie London was married to Bobbie Troup, her Emergency! costar. He was also the composer of “Route 66”, a hit for (separately) Nat King Cole, Chuck Berry and The Rolling Stones. What a family!

You know that Thiel doing what he thought was right and actually doing right are two different things.