It seems to us that we are getting perilously near the ideal of the modern Utopian when life is to consist of sitting in armchairs and pressing a button. Exclusive-OR on the two byte variables indicated, leaving the results in the first. No flags are affected. Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. Smithsonian Magazine , December, 1995.
Someone nearly dies.
Someone is reborn. Someone takes a fall. Lots of things blow up. Something really big blows up. Hearts are broken.