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Everything is a marvel of modern engineering now.
by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
Everything is a marvel of modern engineering now.
- ximeng 10y agoThis would read less like an advert if it mentioned any other plastic cup engineering details other than the product in question.
- bearcobra 10y agoThat's a fair critique, but I think it's worth noting that news of the inventor passing away came out the day before the article was published. It seems reasonable to me to focus on one brand with that as the framing.
- MAGZine 10y agoYes, it's more of an homage rather than an advert. People don't need to be told to buy Solos, they're already a staple for when they're needed.
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- sedachv 10y agoPretty much. The history of technology/human-built objects is fascinating and a lot more nuanced and involved than most people realize. The tiniest details in design and production processes can have a huge impact. We are at a point in history where any manmade object will have an involved history of technological development, some of which has only been recently investigated, other which is now lost to organizational/trade memory (for example I recently learned that no one knows who came up with the idea of venting indoor sewer plumbing, one of the most important developments in indoor plumbing). For a look at what it is like to ignore any of this, there was an interesting experiment by Thomas Thwaites to build an electric toaster from first principles: http://www.thetoasterproject.org/ http://www.thetoasterproject.org/