I respect your right to hold that belief, although I think it is nonsense.

the poor old gook was spitting blood

Architects and designers used to speak, not always respectfully, of a style called Scandiwegian. The term was coined to describe that middlebrow, does-you-good, polite modernism professed by the enlightened Nordic countries.

Like the rulers of radio in 1950, all the entrenched interests are declaring that the new technology of the telecomputer is unlikely to have an impact for a decade or two.