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Included in the GSM standard for mobile devices was the ability to use the mobile network's control channel (the parhway that controls the call but doesn't carry the call itself) to send short alphanumeric messages. It was envisioned principally as a means for one-way communication from the company to the subscriber (such as "your bill is due"). That changed when the functionality was discovered by Norwegian teenagers in the late 1980s.
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― From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future
― From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future
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Lysenkoism may be useful only because it provides a lesson. Whether we like it or not, the days of the independent scientist and of independent science are about over. The more important science becomes in the lives of individuals and of nations, the more it will need popular support and will have to submit to social control. But the forms and techniques of this support and control have not yet been devised and tested. The problem is a new one. The Soviet rulers have tried a solution, but their
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― The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
― The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
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