Geodisney

Walter B. Jehovah, for whose name I make no apology since it really was his name, had been a solipsist all his life. A solipsist, in case you don't happen to know the word, is one who believes that he himself is the only thing that really exists, that other people and the universe in general exist only in his imagination, and that if he quit imagining them, they would cease to exist. One day, Walter B. Jehovah became a practicing solipsist. Within a week, his wife had run away with another man, he'd lost his job as a shipping clerk and he had broken his leg chasing a black cat to keep it from crossing his path. He decided, in a hospital, to end it all. Looking out the window, staring up at the stars, he wished them out of existence, and they weren't there anymore. Then he wished all other people out of existence, and the hospital became strangely quiet, even for a hospital. Next the world, and he found himself suspended in a void. He got rid of his body quite easily and...

Io non credo che la stampa straniera sia indistintamente chilometri avanti rispetto a quella italiana. D'altra parte, a Cesare quel che è di Cesare fuori da qualsiasi pregiudizio esterofilo, che non credo mi appartenga. Insomma, il fatto è che l'Economist fa delle copertine strepitose. Guardate, ad esempio, questa . Capita inoltre che la rivista becchi talmente tanto nel segno alcune questioni da farti rinunciare a scrivere un post su Bill Gates perché loro han già scritto tutto, e meglio. Questo è davvero, per tutti, da leggere. Un articolo grandissimo, quanto l'uomo che descrive, in un inglese deliziosamente britannico . Mr Gates had the good fortune to be perfectly suited for his time—but he is less well-equipped for the collaborative and fragmented era of internet computing. This does not diminish his achievement. Nor, as some would have it, does his philanthropy necessarily magnify it. Whatever the corporate-social-responsibility gurus say, business is a force for goo...