@schubert , it’s good to hear that Germany has survived Angela Merkel.
Due to recent democratic reform almost 50% of young Britains now enter higher education. 40 years ago it was around 3%.
This increased freedom to advance career prospects through hard work and merit must always be welcomed but you also have to account for an inevitable drop in standards too.
Thankfully the advance of digital archiving means that in future we will be able to easily preserve a facsimile of whatever artefacts of civilization we consider worth preserving.
The fly in this ointment though is that these decisions are usually still left to politicians and accountants.
One thing I’d like to see being done now would be uncut in depth interviews with the leading scientists and thinkers recorded for posterity.
Books, records, films, photos etc can be great but little beats a good face to face interview for historical purposes.
Due to recent democratic reform almost 50% of young Britains now enter higher education. 40 years ago it was around 3%.
This increased freedom to advance career prospects through hard work and merit must always be welcomed but you also have to account for an inevitable drop in standards too.
Thankfully the advance of digital archiving means that in future we will be able to easily preserve a facsimile of whatever artefacts of civilization we consider worth preserving.
The fly in this ointment though is that these decisions are usually still left to politicians and accountants.
One thing I’d like to see being done now would be uncut in depth interviews with the leading scientists and thinkers recorded for posterity.
Books, records, films, photos etc can be great but little beats a good face to face interview for historical purposes.