The Thing Everybody Has Experienced
Everybody who has ever assembled flat-pack furniture or taken the back off an appliance knows the sensation. You lean on the screwdriver, the screw is…
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In 1965 every manufactured object in the world began as lines drawn by hand on a board the size of a door. A draughtsman worked with a tee…
The Light Is Not Being Carried, It Is Trapped
The intuitive picture of a fibre optic cable is a pipe with light shining down it, kept on course by a…
It measures the car first, reuses the water, and the brushes are not brushes. Here are twelve.
1. The Machine Measures the Car First
Before anything moves, a set of…
Nothing in There Is Looking at the Bread
This is the fact that reorganises everything else. A domestic toaster contains no sensor pointed at the toast, no measurement of its…
It Does Not Catch Anything
The name does not help and the shape does not help. It is a metal box in an exhaust pipe, the pipe is dirty, and…