It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.
“What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.”
“I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.”