Categories Clippings Essays Uncategorized Manhattan and the Mephistophelean Mind Post author By Jamie Post date October 28, 2013 I learned about the MONIAC in my high school marco-economics class: a.k.a. the Financephalograph or the Philips Hydraulic Computer, MONIAC was a massive machine, the size of two grandfather clocks bolted together, only instead of gears there was colored fluid inside, sluicing through tubes, pushing valves open and filling cisterns. Here, fluid was a metaphor for money, and by manipulating how much trickled through the system (pour in investments, drain out expenditures…) MONIAC could model Great Britain’s fiscal policy. Share this:ShareEmailPrintFacebookTwitterPocketLinkedInPinterestRedditTumblr Tags 3quarksdaily By Jamie For the time being this site is an attempt to collate my clippings and an attempt to describe some of the scenes I might be using in a forthcoming novel. View Archive → ← At the Tulsa Death Match → The State that Oil Built
