“Most of us in the developed world don’t pause to think how amazing it is that we drink water from a tap and never once worry about dying forty-eight hours later from cholera. Thanks to air-conditioning, many of us live comfortably in climates that would have been intolerable just fifty years ago. Our lives are surrounded and supported by a whole class of objects that are enchanted with the ideas and creativity of thousands of people who came before us: inventors and hobbyists and reformers who steadily hacked away at the problem of making artificial light or clean drinking water so that we can enjoy those luxuries today without a second thought,” Excerpt From: Johnson, Steven. “How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World.” Penguin Group US, 2014-09-30T00:00:00+00:00. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.
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