tenet 1 ... Volkswagen ran an ad campaign with the phrase "small is beautiful" in the US to promote the VW bug, but the idea was generally ignored in the US until the price of oil went up and Americans learned the advantages of small cars.

everytime military is just too close ... maybe later.

viele scheinen ja nicht danach zu fragen. (refdep)

The Astonishing Hypothesis, Francis Crick

gaspard riche de prony: ... break down the computational work of calculating logarithmic and trigonometric tables into small atomic parts that could be carried out repetitively by relatively unskilled human computers and Babbage’s idea was to try to replace de Prony’s deskilled humans by machines.(science, technology and the world war ii regime)

tiny machines