Sublime

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Neil Dreyer

@ndreyer

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Citizen Ernesto

@climate_citizen

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Nathan Sharp

@nsharp

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Michael Dov Berman

@mdb

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Andreas Vlach

@tes

During the 1960s, Salton developed a system that was to become a model for information retrieval. It was called SMART,

Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

continuous processing, the mechanization of unreliable hand processes, and John Hall’s style of reconceiving a process down through the finest-grained of production details. British visitors to American steel plants were astonished—not just at their scale and speed but by the “very conspicuous absence of labourers.”

Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy

Anthony Hobday—Product designer

anthonyhobday.com

The United States Army Corps of Engineers has its Chicago District headquarters in a Classical Revival building on LaSalle Street. A plaque outside the building explains that it was the site of the General Time Convention of 1883, held to sync the country’s clocks. The process involved pruning dozens of regional time zones down to four, which, in m