Opinion

Magical thinking

Arthur C. Clarke, the pioneering science-fiction author who died last week, once formulated three ironic laws of ‘prediction’, the last of which read: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

Why a quote from Senator Obama in the ad?

Dear Editor, I had the fortune..or rather the misfortune of coming across a GT&T advertisement in your quarterly Guyana Review publication contained in the 25th March 2008 edition of the Stabroek News, and I was rather confused and surprised that the advertisement, had a much vaulted statement from a Senator no less, in the United States, who happens to be running for President of the US.

We give up too easily, we must use our imagination

Dear Editor, When any sane person is offered a basket to fetch water and recognises it very early but still accepts then the giver whom we accept as even more sane and concerned will expect that all the creative and imaginative skills to seal the basket ,freeze the water into ice and convey it to the clients as mutually agreed are unconditionally accomplished.

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