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  • But would he have recognised a cigarette-packet-sized device that shows text and pictures and responds to touches as the same class of object as the room-sized mainframes that processed payrolls for corporations and were controlled with punchcards? Without real-time processing, VDU terminals, microcomputers and GUIs to bridge the gap, they’d be essentially two very different things.


  • Wasn’t purgatory something like 100,000 years of being flayed alive in a river of boiling shit for every time you had an intemperate thought or stared cross-eyed at a church or something, meaning that the average person would spend unfathomable amounts of time suffering unendurable tortures before finally getting into the Kingdom of Heaven?