Template:Are You Sure/February 8

• ... that electrical engineer and physicist Dennis Gabor published Inventing the Future, in which he discusses the three major threats he saw to modern society: war, overpopulation and the Age of Leisure, and that the book contains the now well-known expression that "the future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented."?

• ... that printer and publisher Christian Egenolff was sued in 1533 by publisher Johann Schott, a noted Strasbourg publisher for infringement of copyright on Herbarium Vivae Icones, and that Egenolff argued in his defense that nature could not be copyrighted and that plants stood as communal models for any artist?