The same who created the Golem! Read this!ĭU: “Lorem ipsum dolipsiscur dixit Simon carpetrite Aleph Bet….” I can’t make it out. LI: An original invention of Rabbi Loew of Prague. He lights a paper from the menorah and throws a switch. LI: And instead of scanning the heavens, he’ll take an online course in financial analysis.
Talking of which, light these candles, please.ĭU: Even in this hinterland, some child with a spark of genius may be born! What are you doing? Is that a Menorah? LI: … who will exert all their brainpower to make themselves stupid, so they can connect with their audience.ĭU: You must admit they’ll be better off than by candlelight in their miserable huts. They’ll be in touch with the cleverest people on earth…. But now… now they can tweet.ĭU: At last they will be connected to civilization! Saved from the idiocy of rural life!ĭU: Even in these hills, they’ll be able to listen to the most brilliant lecturers, watch the greatest actors, the wittiest comedians. The people here have looked up at the stars for two thousand years, and what have they learnt from it? Nothing but breeding sheepdogs, drinking, and beating their wives. And what is the downside? A few eccentrics and weirdos won’t be able to see the stars. Now, absolutely anyone anywhere will be able to tell everyone anything! What wonders await!ĭU: You misanthrope! It’s so typical that you only see the downside. LI: But that was only the most intelligent half of the planet. The internet has gifted us with Twitter.ĭU: Are you being sarcastic? … I should have known. In the age of the printing press, Shakespeare and John Bunyan. In the age of papyrus, we had the Book of Job. Billions of people brought online!ĭU: It’ll expand human communication like never before. LI: I picked it up in Hackney Wick market, from a chap in a pine-marten hat.
Now they will have a galaxy of interactive entertainment! Could you read what’s on the paper?ĭU: “Hocus… pocus… allegorum magorum… Madonna Cabbalistica borax infernalis?” What is this thing? Their grandfathers had nothing to do at night but get drunk and look up at the sky. Even hamlets like this one, where you’ve buried yourself for five years… I expect the locals are looking forward to their connection!
A shame for stargazers! But how inspiring - to bring cheap satellite internet to remote places all over the world. Would you hold this scrap of paper and this matchbox?ĭU: They’re taking over half the sky. A row of figures… four… twenty… sixty-nine. Oh, they’re Elon Musk’s Starlink! And they’re advertising Tesla. Some of the stars are moving! There’s a whole row of them, then another… they’re forming a kind of T shape.ĭU: They’re satellites. Do you see anything else?ĭU: There’s… wait. He points at something like a high-tech barrel organ. And isn’t that Orion? But you didn’t invite me here to do astronomy. Can you see the Plough?ĭU: Over there, low on the horizon.
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