“Breakthroughs in information and communications technology are leading to forms of dematerialization unimaginable just a decade ago. Consider smartphones. They require more energy to manufacture and operate than older cell phones. But by obviating the need for separate, physical newspapers, books, magazines, cameras, watches, alarm clocks, GPS systems, maps, letters, calendars, address books, and stereos, they will likely significantly reduce humanity’s use of energy and materials over the next century. Such examples suggest that holding technological progress back could do far more environmental damage than accelerating it.”

― Michael Shellenberger

1609 Artus Quellinus, Flemish sculptor

1693 Jacobus Nozeman, Dutch composer. Sonate nr. 3 Sarabanda, Allegro Assai

1748 Jacques-Louis David, French Neoclassical painter

1769 Bonifacio Asioli, Italian composer and music writer. Adagio.

1797 Mary Shelley, English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

1842 Victor Alphonse Duvernoy, French pianist and composer. Concertino

1860 Isaac Levitan, Russian classical painter

1871 Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-born physicist known as the father of nuclear physics.

1962 Alexander Litvinenko, British-naturalised Russian defector and former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB)

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