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 the so-called "carnivorous digible" (Dirigible horribilis) is a species of grazing ruminant airship, neither carnivorous nor horrible, and that it evolved from early experiments in artificial intelligence?

• ... 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?

• ... that historical theories for why the Didacus automaton was constructed include: Philip II wished to share the miracle of his son's recovery with his people; or, the clockwork friar provided a portable model of "how to pray" which could be displayed around the kingdom?