They are the signs of human craftsmanship and ingenuity combined in the struggle against water.
"Hand-made" is not just a Brooklyn-hipster fad, but a global trend towards human craftsmanship and unique products.
Already, as of 2014, the nation uses a million industrial robots in factories more than any other nation and (despite limited talk about turning back toward low-scale, high-quality human craftsmanship) hopes to keep pace with their declining workforce by adding another million by 2030.
On flotation day he wrote on the Etsy blog, "We've grown, Etsy has become a touch point of debate for larger issues, including whether the human-centered craftsmanship that we exist to support is compatible with being a public company.
In the factory, heavily automated bakery conglomerates have stripped out most of the time, human effort and craftsmanship from the bread-making process, replacing traditional methods with a chemistry set of additives and undisclosed processing aids, notably enzymes synthesised in the laboratory.
What was clear was that the devices on display were the fruits of centuries of human brilliance and craftsmanship, all aimed at improving our ability to calculate.
Always he found talent to be intimately linked to joie de vivre, ability to gaiety, and craftsmanship to human flourishing, and he proceeded accordingly, with sometimes greater, sometimes lesser success and skill.
By flipping the script in this direction, we can move towards a future of hope – and a realization that there are areas of work in which creativity, craftsmanship and human judgment will always be superior to what a machine can do.
His search of NHS hospitals for any residue of craftsmanship, the special human quality of being "engaged", makes depressing reading.
That this is so is because the more human elements, like comfort, transparency and craftsmanship, have not been sacrificed to new materials and methods of construction.
His references to homosexuality, "oral stimulation," and masturbation are couched in a rich setting of wit, charm, linguistic subtlety, superb literary craftsmanship, evocative description, and deep human sympathy.
