I don’t know about an interlude with no threats to the homeland. Remember how the US and the USSR were building nuclear tipped misses throughout the 50’s and 60’s? Not exactly a peaceful feeling.
I used a slide rule up until grad school. I was shocked to learn that every student coming into the freshman chemistry class (for which I was a TA) had a calculator. If the power ran out, they had no idea of how to use a slide rule.
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“There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.”
— Joan Robinson, “Contributions to Modern Economics” (1978)
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