WAKING UP
“It seems to me that our scientists may have got their priorities slightly wrong. You may ask yourself which you would rather have—the scientific suppression of rheumatism, the common cold, malnutrition and the warfaring instinct ... or a fluorescent iodine alarm clock guaranteed to get you up, right on time, 500 yean? after you’re dead.” —Basil Boothroyd in the 8.8. C. World Service, talking about scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology who are developing a clock which will only lose one second in 600 years.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31724, 6 July 1968, Page 5
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