Activity

Perfect verticality is a completely unachievable abstraction but it does not stop bricklayers continually checking that walls and lintels are as vertical and level as they can possibly be

imposing 'structural adjustment' agreements: drastic cuts to public-sector spending and the sell-off of public-sector assets to fund debt-servicing

It was Wiener who coined the word 'cybernetics' from the ancient Greek word for a helmsman: kybernetes

The baleful 1969 decision to 'go IBM' was worthy of any corporate capitalist boardroom