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The Thing 08:34 - Aug 24 with 527 viewsStokieBlue

I found this interesting, hadn't heard of this episode of the cold war:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48859331

Typical of the Russians to put their best scientists in prison camps, they did the same with their rocket designer who was a genius and put them far ahead of the US.

The Chief Designer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Korolev

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The Thing on 08:53 - Aug 24 with 457 viewsfooters

If you haven't already, read Solzhenitsyn,s The First Circle for a fictional view of life in a Soviet intellectual gulag. His is specifically about the development of voice recognition technology. Something boffins and linguists should find v interesting :)

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