> I missed my slipstick. Dad says that anyone who can't use a slide rule is a cultural illiterate and should not be allowed to vote. Mine is a beauty—a K&E 20" Log-log Duplex Decitrig. Dad surprised me with it after I mastered a ten-inch polyphase. We ate potato soup that week—but Dad says you should always budget luxuries first. I knew where it was. Home on my desk.
—Robert A. Heinlein, "Have Spacesuit - Will Travel"
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People who haven't read much Heinlein (or less charitably, are too stupid to understand it), always complain he's promoting some political system which isn't neoliberal electoral college, or interpersonal relations their pastor wouldn't approve of.
But *REALLY* what Heinlein's primary bugaboo was, is math, language, & library science as core technologies. Apparently if you can calculate, know, & say things right, everything else is trivial to solve. Relativity? War? Just math it out!