From the day
Perspective: The Future Historian · Sound
The rhythmic *clack-clack* of Underwood typewriters in the newsroom competes with a nearby radio humming "The Sheik of Araby," nearly drowning out the boys shouting about bootleggers and whisky trucks on the street below. There’s a strange energy in the air this Valentine's Day, a shift from human muscle to something more precise, like that new **polygraph** machine they say can catch a liar or the talk of **insulin** finally taming the sugar-sickness. People are even whispering about "Rossum’s Universal **Robots**" over at the theater, but it sounds like a load of **baloney** to a man who still has to crank his own Ford. I adjust my collar against the Newark chill, listening to the cacophony of a world outgrowing its own skin.