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...area, population. "Learned footnotes" sprouted at the bottoms of pages. But at the start, articles were short, often mere "items," snippets and extracts from other publications. Brevity and simplification were the goals. These became increasingly difficult to achieve. The past 60 years have seen an almost continuous explosion of knowledge???which, of course, began with the Enlightenment but picked up dizzying speed. The intellectual universe became ever harder for ordinary people, inharder for ordinary people, indeed even for specialists, to master. At the same time, the importance of specialized knowledge became dramatically clear as the arcana of science, technology...
Another prospect is to alter genes so that babies will be born with rote knowledge???language skills, multiplication tables?just as birds apparently emerge from the egg with genetic programs that enable them to navigate. Some researchers hope to develop shared consciousness among several minds, thus pooling intellectual resources...
...only trial flight before the India take-off was in mild weather, was cut from 24 hr. to 16 hr. without Lord Thomson's knowledge???and resulted in a dead engine...
...ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA: Fourteenth Edition. A New Survey of Universal Knowledge???The Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...many Democrats realized that they were acting out a pageant illustrating constitutional history. Probably most of them thought of nothing but that at last they might get something done, which has, after all, been the motivating force in the development of all constitutions." This is no startling contribution to knowledge???every political observer knows, sees that all democracies are in fact oligarchies?but it does raise a number of interesting questions...
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