Dick Pountain is editorial fellow of PC Pro. Although he refutes Samuel Johnson’s refuting argument, he likes the good doctor really. Email dick@dickpountain.co.uk
My column last month was a semi-temperate rant, triggered by sensationalist reporting of advances in cosmology and particle physics by the mainstream press (the “wormhole in a quantum computer” effect). I attributed this to the coming of age of generations reared on Star Wars and the Marvel Universe, which induces deep longings to flout the laws of physics.
