As publisher of over 50 science magazines, Hugo Gernsback had a lot of be distracted from. A ringing telephone or a doorbell, Gernsback complained, was enough to stop the flow of thought. But 50% of the time, he concluded, we are our own disturbers. “The greatest difficulty that the human mind has to contend with […]
Just as the tin-opener was invented 50 years after the tin can, the e-book came before the e-reader. We can thank one man unreasonable enough to spend nearly 20 years sitting alone at a keyboard, manually entering text into one e-book after another in his spare time. The e-book Jump to 1971 and a sugar-pizza loving […]
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