A computer might offer the same insight some day, but it couldn't possibly be as nice.
All it will take is a flash of engineering insight, some financial backing and the right kind of economic incentives - which is where the X-Prize comes in.
It's an odd book: it lurches between registers, from earnest lyricism to broad farce, from persuasive psychological insight (some of the book is very moving) to swathes of ill-advised dialect and stereotype.
Bugg's description of One Direction as "not really a band", up there with his shruggy comment that Mumford and Sons look like posh farmers with banjos, suggests he doesn't have all the wit and insight some reviewers claim.
Underpinning anti-colonialism was the sense that achieving freedom also necessitates self-criticism and transformation of one's own self and society - an insight some self-styled modern anti-imperialists seem to have forgotten.
After that insight, some had suggested that feedbacks from the ice sheets themselves amplified the weak orbital signal.
