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Ministry of Recovery and Discovery

28 May 2020
Taken from the May 2020 issue of Physics World.

In this article (originally published in Lateral Thoughts, Physics World’s regular column of humorous and offbeat essays, puzzles, crosswords, quizzes and comics, which appears on the back page of the print edition) Peter Wright riffs on technologies that he would discard, were he to become a world leader

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Am I the only one who thinks that perhaps some of our technology has come too far, too fast? And are

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