"Organizations supporting hyperscale workloads need powerful servers to maximize efficiency and realize radical space, cost and energy savings, " said Paul Santeler, vice president and general manager, Hyperscale Business Unit, Industry-standard Servers and Software at HP.

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But in what he calls "our new world of flattened time and space, " I wonder if we are also seeing, alongside the radical democratization of time and space, the flattening of age.

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He also saw the functional and commercial vernacular of Liverpool as a source for a more familiar and time-tested kind of design, and he began to use local materials, like red brick, to modify the structural glass and steel of the university buildings at Cambridge and Leicester done in the late '50s and early '60s, without sacrificing the radical rethinking of program and space that modernism encouraged.

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To conserve space Issigonis put the engine transversely driving the front wheels, this was a radical design but allowed a very short bonnet and gave more interior space, enough for four adults.

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It concluded that the agency could not move forward "without radical reform" and recommended cuts in the space station's workforce and shuttle missions.

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Its backers, who include Tom Clancy, a rich novelist, are betting that its radical design will prove superior to dreary old rockets and space-planes.

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But while the radical measures remain on the shelf, the situation is unresolved, illustrating two enduring truths - death is unavoidable and space is disappearing.

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