Lauren’s Reviews > Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival > Status Update

Greenblatt's suggestion that the modern world of capitalism is the fulfillment of the devil's pact wherein even a poor scholar can use algorithms to attain imported fresh fruit out of season is crazy. Easily 15 years since I last read/watched Doctor Faustus but yes, that's exactly it, it's predicting the future, it's Clarke's third law in action.