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The word "downsizing" wasn't even invented until the mid-seventies.
(Oil paint in tubes wasn't invented until the 1840s).
After all, interlocking metal-tooth zippers were not invented until 1913.
Agriculture wasn't invented until about 9,000 years ago, so there goes most grains and starches and fruits and vegetables.
The means for playing back sound weren't invented until 1877, when Thomas Edison recorded himself on tinfoil.
Of course, these ideas weren't invented until much later and in Europe to boot, but never mind.
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She noted in her book on adolescence that humans' closest genetic relative, the chimpanzee, loses curiosity at 5 or 6, but that humans continue exploring, investigating and inventing until the onset of senility.
As 3rd asst engineer he saved his ship from Nazi U-boat destruction by improvising an engine repair; he made multiple major innovations throughout his career and at age 63 he co-founded Precision Combustion where he continued to invent until his death.
Then again, the human species often doesn't understand the consequences of what it invents until decades later.
After all, as Mike George, Amazon's VP of apps and games said back in February, "We have patience and we take a long view of all these things that we're doing, and we really do start with our customers…And if we don't get it the first time, we keep iterating and inventing until we do".
She continued to speak of her mother as if she were still alive and replied to reporters' questions with invented quotes, until Laurence Benaïm, a journalist for Le Monde, grew suspicious, did some sleuthing and, in December 1994, turned up the death certificate.
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