Olive oil as a safe tanning agent. The League of Nations as a way to solve international crises. Mainframes as the solution to the US energy crisis.Well-meaning, fuzzy-headed notions that ended up completely discredited. Only the last idea is being seriously propounded - with the contention that the mainframe, or at least the IBM incarnation thereof, has once more risen from the grave.
Gary Flood, 30 Jun 2001
