MYTH 12
You can learn to do anything you want
Some of you will doubtless remember the late 1960s exploits of the eponymous schoolboy-cum-super-spy, Joe McClaine, in the Gerry and Sylvia Anderson Supermarionation TV series, Joe 90. Each week Joe sat in a machine invented by his adopted dad and had other people’s skills and experiences downloaded directly into his young brain. This enabled him to perform brain surgery, pilot various aircraft, acquire several foreign languages, and in short carry out his full range of duties as the Most Special Agent of the World Intelligence Network. It was a pretty useful trick, even if he did have to wear a pair of rather unflattering spectacles to pull it off.
Joe 90 was (and I stress) a children’s science-fiction ...
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