Watched Adam Curtis documentaries tonight. Two memorable tidbits:
1. when the Soviets wanted to build their grand, industrial city of the future they modeled it on an American city: Gary, Indiana. Wouldn’t have been my first choice, but hindsight is 20/20.
2. The economic scientists in Britian during the 1960s constructed a water-based machine to model the economy. Water (blood colored) flowed through labrynthian glass pipes to various vessels representing such things as interest rates, unemployment, trade balance and so on. No, I’m not making this up.
