The strange endurance of obsolescence
Why do some things keep on being used when an up-to-date replacement is clearly much better?
As we mentioned last week, our navigator was out of the office teaching a professor how to use his sextant. Having decades of experience in both the observations and the calculations involved, he certainly has a firm grasp of the subject. But that’s not always the quality you need in a teacher.
Your novel, novella, short story or epic poem has everything:
Shouldn’t you also get the universe right?