... devices is let loose in the wild, as the gadget seeks to make its own way in the world on its own terms. 'In Constant Contact' continues the saga of inventions gone wrong, when always-online 'professional friends' lead to nothing but trouble....

...nt? It doesn't want anything except to function. All other things are the inventions of thought. The body has no separate, independent existence o... ... is an invention of frightened minds. The human mind has many destructive inventions to its credit. The most destructive one, and the one that has c...

...hout exercising their proper forces, if by the benefit of memorie, forren inventions and strange opinions were present with me. That my speech is th... ...ar displaieth his inventiton at large, when he would have us conceive his inventions how to build bridges, and devices, how to frame other war-like ... ...ference between them and my selfe: all which notwithstanding, I suffer my inventions to run abroad, as weake and faint as I have produced them, witho... ...easie matter in a common subject, namely for the wiser sort) with ancient inventions, here and there hudled up together. And in those who endeavoure... ...ome they far short in imitating the rich descriptions of the one, and rare inventions of the other. But what shall he doe, if he be urged with sophis... ...of honour of our great and puissant mother Nature. We have so much by our inventions surcharged the beauties and riches of her workes, that we have ... ...ntious Poesie hath proudly imbellished the golden age, and all her quaint inventions to faine a happy condition of man, but also the conception and d... ...ainder of our life unto our selves: let us bring home our cogitations and inventions unto our selves and unto our ease. It is no easie matter to mak... ...im, so that the raging crueltie of the hangmen that held him, and all the inventions of torments that could be devised, being redoubled upon him, one...