EDITORIAL
Warm up
Do not go gentle into that good night...
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It has been said that the shortest measurable unit of time is the period between the traffic lights changing to green and the sound of the taxi driver blowing his horn when stuck behind your car. To this quantum event can be added the attention span of an orthopaedic surgeon, which despite being as ephemeral as Schrödinger’s cat, may turn out to be an important phenomenon after all.
Our modern world gets ever faster and more complex. Each year it seems like Christmas comes every six weeks. This year is more than half over and apart from the Druids celebrating the solstice or research fellows counting how many papers they are likely to get published this year who would know?
The information revolution dumps huge amounts of information on our virtual desks to read, analyse, and file. While I sit here pondering this missive, I am reminded of
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