Things that are archaic

[footfootfoot]

This is the opening paragraph of a Must Read book, In the Absence of the Sacred written in 1991.

When I first read this book, I bought 25 copies of it and gave them away to friends.

The Author also wrote Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

[BigV]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

This is the opening paragraph of a Must Read book, In the Absence of the Sacred written in 1991.

When I first read this book, I bought 25 copies of it and gave them away to friends.

The Author also wrote Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

cool! missed the mark on fax, synthetic fibers, and antibiotics, whatever. Times, they are a'changin'!

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by BigV

cool! missed the mark on fax, synthetic fibers, and antibiotics, whatever. Times, they are a'changin'!

Interesting! I looked up when the first synthetic fibers were made and there seems to be a distinction between synthetic and artificial. Cellulose acetate, for example is made from processed cellulose and not strictly a synthetic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_fiber

He was a few years off with Antibiotics and almost a century off with fax machines! Holy cats, who knew fax machines were that old?