The code tablet

The classic laptop becomes the tablet of the law, as if to say: everything was already written. On the screen it appears the following citation from The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare: Time's glory is to calm contending kings To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light To stamp the seal of time in aged things To wake the morn, and sentinel the night To wrong the wronger till he render right As well as this one by Juvenal (Satire VI, lines 347–348, circa 100 A.D.): But who will guard the guards themselves? and the original Latin: Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? Both citations are contained is the seminal paper of Stuart Haber and Scott Stornetta (How to Time-Stamp a Digital...View all