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This is a very attractive feature, as it serves to give balance of decoration and also partly hides the plain stretcher from sight. A typical detail of Charles II furniture is the crown supported by cherubs or opposed S-curves. James II used a crown and palm leaves. Grinling Gibbons did his wonderful work in carving at this time, using chiefly pear and lime wood.
Information technology has matured but new S-curves are nascent: nanotechnology, quantum computing, proteomics, neuro-silicates, and machine intelligence. Recent innovations have spawned two crucial ethical debates, though with accentuated pragmatic aspects.
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