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Predicting the future is considered a fool’s game. But it’s one many of us like to play. And seeing as we asked a selection of experts about the biggest breakthroughs of the century so far (p38), we c

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Alfred and Bede. These are the two figures who tower over the first half-millennium of the history of Anglo-Saxon England. There’s a reason for that, of course: they wrote this history. The Venerable