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General => General Technical Chat => Topic started by: cdev on October 08, 2017, 04:09:58 pm
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This is amazing art about the (hoped for) future and technology.
http://englishrussia.com/2017/06/29/soviet-sci-fi-mag-covers-predict-future/ (http://englishrussia.com/2017/06/29/soviet-sci-fi-mag-covers-predict-future/)
http://www.diagram.com.ua/library/tm/ (http://www.diagram.com.ua/library/tm/)
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Loved reading it for the translated sci fi short stories. I think most of them were American. That was back in late 80s and early 90s.
Thank you for the link to the archive. I have read all the issues from maybe 89 or 90. It will be fun to read the earlier ones.
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TM was an awesome magazine. I loved reading it.
And this is one of the thing that is possible in a socialist-heading society, without state sponsorship this would have been impossible. So are dozens of other high quality magazines (Radio, To help a radio amateur, Science and Life, Chemistry and Life, etc).
Radio and Science and Life continued after the Soviet Union collapse, but the quality dropped considerably (reprinting unverified crap from the internet), and the ads were taking up half the magazine.
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And the loss of a great deal of public funding for scientific research and education is a huge loss here in the US too.
We keep telling ourselves and one another that somehow private funding and "the marketplace" can do better but the facts don't back that up at all, its really a bad situation.
The same applies to health care and essential public services/utilities. In terms of importance, these four are the most important and their importance is equal.. higher education, primary education, clean water, healthcare. IMHO, we have to figure out a way to keep them available even when its unprofitable in the short term to supply them to many people. Otherwise we're in for a rough ride.
Publishing of good quality content, is also up there.. to a great extent people are trying to do that but the dependence on mega-corporations to aggregate and host thousands or millions of peoples content is disturbing to me.
I think that we would be better off with the early Internet's far less centralized model.
TM was an awesome magazine. I loved reading it.
And this is one of the thing that is possible in a socialist-heading society, without state sponsorship this would have been impossible. So are dozens of other high quality magazines (Radio, To help a radio amateur, Science and Life, Chemistry and Life, etc).
Radio and Science and Life continued after the Soviet Union collapse, but the quality dropped considerably (reprinting unverified crap from the internet), and the ads were taking up half the magazine.
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The thanks should go to @Mr.Wolf who posted one of the links to them in a recent semi-unrelated thread here in General Chat. That made me aware of them.
Loved reading it for the translated sci fi short stories. I think most of them were American. That was back in late 80s and early 90s.
Thank you for the link to the archive. I have read all the issues from maybe 89 or 90. It will be fun to read the earlier ones.
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Might as well post second link then :D
Full set + many extras as torrent:
https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4986785 (https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4986785)
"Skachat' razdachu po magnet-ssylke" should work if have torrent-client, no need to register.
If want to type russian letters for search etc then this helps:
http://translit.net/ (http://translit.net/)