Trying to make sense of the history of your own time whilst it is happening is well nigh impossible. However, with increasing age the past comes into focus. The dust settles. Alles klar, as the germans say.
I came across an interesting observation recently which was that in the 1920s there was a change from making what people need to persuading people that what machines make is what they need.
The more I think about it and the more profound it seems.
Pierre
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