Your original quote asserts a definite fate, not a fate which would occur if some particular technology were to remain uninvented.
That is not dead which can eternal lieAnd with strange aeons even death may die
-- H. P. Lovecraft
Piet Hein is definitely dead.
“Everybody has got to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.”
--author William Saroyan, letter written to his survivors
Holy shit, this the first time ever that I realized the relationship between this Lovecraft quote and classic OB/LW topics. Scary.
You mean you missed it back in February? :)
Your original quote asserts a definite fate, not a fate which would occur if some particular technology were to remain uninvented.
-- H. P. Lovecraft
Piet Hein is definitely dead.
--author William Saroyan, letter written to his survivors
Holy shit, this the first time ever that I realized the relationship between this Lovecraft quote and classic OB/LW topics. Scary.
You mean you missed it back in February? :)