A tale is told of two computer scientists back in the 1970s, discussing the new microprocessors. "They're going to be cheap! A dollar each!" One of them explained. "But who needs computers that cheap? What are they going to do, use them as doorknobs?" Asked his friend. Ten years later, the computer scientist was checking into a hotel room and suddenly looked at the card-key in his hand and realized, yes, there was a computer in every doorknob.
If I could be a real dick and ask for a quick read and comment on the journal of this week's chapter in particular...this one is one of my favourites, an attempt to get back the old light-fun-slash-deadly-tension of the oldest days, and I want to know how well it worked.