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“Nancite’s internet highlights the paradox of this kind of technology. You crave more of it but, deep down, you know you would be happier with a lot less.” — BBC:Â Adventure travel in the age of the online connection
“On the corner of a building almost opposite the Old Curiosity Shop is another amazing curiosity that goes unnoticed by most city dwellers. It is an old metal sign claiming that orders are taken for the dispatch of newspapers, books and magazines to all parts of the world. For this building was from 1929 to 1976 the head quarters of Messer’s W. H Smith & Son and the shrapnel damaged sign that is still attached to the wall is now all that remains to remind us of the business that stood here on the night of the German air raid on the 10th October 1940.”
What If London’s Geography Were As Distorted As Its Tube Map?