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Technological Progress
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2019
Right now you’re living at the pinnacle of technological endeavour. Tomorrow will be even higher. Particle colliders would have been unheard of 30 years ago. As would telephones 200 years ago. Paper 10,000 years ago.
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NOV
2019
But these technologies are and always will be about the destruction of something natural. Since that first rock was smashed to form a hand axe by our Stone Age forbearers, we've taken something natural, deconstructed it and rebuilt it in a novel way.
Most rebuilds are preposterously useful. But take a look around - try and find something that wasn't natural before we touched it.
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