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Who holds the welding rod?

James Meek: Our Turbine Futures, 15 July 2021

... semi in a street of similar houses between the town centre and the fields of sheep further up the hill. We met later in a café by the harbour. Outside, a bed of hardy municipal flowers clustered low and tight against the chill. Every so often a car went by. We weren’t the only customers, but a sense of surplus space and time, an absence of hustle and ...

The Suitcase: Part Three

Frances Stonor Saunders, 10 September 2020

... they had fled before, and knew that the survivors were the ones who got away first. The journalist Alan Moorehead, seeing off his wife and small daughter, saw a Czech Jew who had been barred from a train try to commit suicide on the platform.Micheline and the girls reached Port Said at sunset, in time to see the Queen Elizabeth being coaled, one line of locals ...

The Satoshi Affair

Andrew O’Hagan, 30 June 2016

... with Wright, to seeing the patents and the new blockchain ideas. During our lunch in Notting Hill, Matonis suggested that this technology would change the world. One of the scientists said to me, ‘This isn’t Bitcoin 2.0. This is something magnificent that will change who we are. This is Life 2.0,’ and Matonis agreed. The idea was now to use the ...

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