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How much would a car cost now if it progressed as rapidly as a computer?

Bill Gates claims that "if the car progressed as fast as a computer, a Rolls-Royce would now cost less than a dollar, and a liter of gasoline could drive a thousand kilometers."

Indeed, since the advent of computers, their price and cost of operation in comparison with productivity have fallen in exactly this proportion.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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Why did Korney Chukovsky call God a magician in one of the books he edited?

In Soviet times, it was very difficult to get access to religious literature. Korney Chukovsky in the 1960s requested permission to publish biblical traditions adapted for children by famous writers and writers under his editorship. The project was allowed with a caveat: God and Jews should not be mentioned in the book, so the pseudonym "Magician Yahweh" was invented for God. Despite this, the entire print run of the book "The Tower of Babel and Other Ancient Legends", published by the "Children's Literature" publishing house in 1968, was destroyed, and the book was reprinted only in 1990.

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