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...Steyn had settled in the tiny, oil-rich monarchy of Brunei, in south-east Asia, where his wife found a job teaching English to the children of the local elite....
...Automata carry out menial tasks and cog-filled computers churn data, while Queen Victoria is part-robot, kept alive by mechanical organ replacements....
...That is why he likes to see his brand’s expensive sports watches being worn by elite athletes “at work” — and why owning Moonbeam IV inspired him to establish a long-distance race for classic yachts....
...One respondent to the tweet, also an elite solver, said this made his blood run cold....
...But he failed to finish in his high-tech Le Mans Prototype 1 (LMP1) racer due to mechanical problems....
...The rational, calculating search for what produces the most good promises “a mechanical and what appears to be an exact way of explaining how to be good in your life . . ....
...If you can send a car into space, why not create your own mechanical avatar?...
...I would say that out of all of the like elite groups of people, hedge funds have probably the least amount of class loyalty....
...But mechanical reproduction helps to establish an artist’s market, a point that Warhol grasped early on....
...Now he was the skunk at his own garden party, mingling with the elites he had once shredded....
...So why then is Musk accelerating the mechanical takeover of the planet by ploughing head first into personal robot manufacturing?...
...mechanical watchmaking....
...Now in its third incarnation, the Whoop is targeting slightly less elite sportspeople like you and me. It’s recharged in-situ with a click-on battery pack, a sort of mid-air refuelling....
...The first mechanical pedometer was made in Switzerland in 1780. For the next 229 years nothing much happened in the field of what we now call “the quantified self”....
...The country’s business elite, traditionally hostile to Lula, is starting to believe that the former trade union leader is the lesser evil....
...Among those publicly urging higher taxes to help pay for the Covid crisis are Christina Hansen, granddaughter of a mechanical engineering magnate, and Antonis Schwarz, heir of a pharma fortune....
...Cryotherapy chambers, infrared saunas and in-gym mechanical massage loungers are all part of the trend....
...A New Yorker magazine feature on Augusta described “a vast network of pipes and mechanical blowers, which help drain and ventilate the putting greens....
...There is some unseen alchemy that transforms these mechanical objects into vessels of emotion....
...“But that was only 20 per cent of the value of the watch,” he says, pointing to the higher cost of mechanical movements, which Panerai now makes in-house....
...Such mechanical refinements as it has – zero-reset function and 100-hour power reserve – are at the service of precision timekeeping....
...Bourriaud presents his artists — 56 across three venues — as an elite squadron of eco-warriors who “stand apart” and “show us what we have created, unaware.”...
...It is an elite movement that ultimately serves the broad consumer middle-class. It just does it so gradually and indirectly that we are unaware of the process in real time....
...And people whose lifestyles depend on their cars will be tempted to dismiss environmentalism as an elite hobby....
...His elite group of divers suffered from hypothermia after emerging from cold water and he did not have an easy solution....
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