The novel and movie “Love is a Many Splendored Thing” is set in Colonial British Hong Kong in the fifties; and tells the story of a married, but separated, American Korean War Reporter Mark Elliot (William Holden), who falls in love with a Eurasian doctor Han Suyin, originally from China (played by Jennifer Jones), only […]

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Blade Runner 2049      Soma-Cybernetics Augmented Intelligence In short; Soma-cybernetics is the interlink of available current computer technology, as to augment the somatic side of the human mind. And in it’s approach Soma-Cybernetic is distinct from the hard-wired cerebral prosthetic cybernetics of science-fiction’s cyborg or the genetically engineered Replicant of Blade Runner’s Nexus-9 science […]

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Hewlett Packard HP35 Electronic Slide Rule “Prosthetic” As a 6i and a 6ii student at Bedales school at Petersfield Hants England, the timber slide-ruler was the distinguishing mark of a Physics science student, even though I was one of those “odd ones”, who crossed the picket line in doing an “A” Level in Art and […]

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