# Essays

These are essays on a range of subjects, which some people have said they enjoyed reading.

=_[Unravelling the multiculturalism debate](Unravelling the multiculturalism debate.md)_=
    An attempt to sketch out the dimensions of the problem in Britain.
=_[The End of Innocents](The End of Innocents.tex)_=
    _Strategies for a 21st Century Pied Piper_, or, _Why Kids Think Computers Aren’t Cool Any More, And How To Cope_.
=_[The Melting Machine: from PC to Pronit](The Melting Machine: from PC to Pronit.tex)_=
    Over the next thirty years the personal computer will disappear and be replaced by the networked pronit; computing will become a part of everyday life rather than a separate activity, and be involved in a much wider range of activities.
=_[Information and Freedom](Information and Freedom.tex)_=
    An investigation of freedom of information in the age of electronic information storage and retrieval.
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=_[The Problems of Philosophical Consistency and Rationality](The Problems of Philosophical Consistency and Rationality.tex)_=
    A discussion of the difficulties of reconciling consistent rational philosophy with a contradictory world.
=_[Examine the ways in which the Romanovs changed Russia between 1613 and 1725](Examine the ways in which the Romanovs changed Russia between 1613 and 1725.tex)_=
    An essay whose style is at odds with its title’s.
=_[A New Consideration of the Wandering Devourer](A New Consideration of the Wandering Devourer.tex)_=
    A rare paper on a rarer creature.
=_[Tour to the Rainbow Land]($url{/Other/Choir/South Africa 1995.tex})_=
    An article about the tour made by St John’s College Choir, Cambridge to South Africa in 1995, shortly after the end of arpartheid. The article appeared in _The Eagle_, the College's official annual magazine, in 1996.