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Waiter, there’s a fork in my soup

5 mins | Mar 13, 2020
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Listen together: what can this tell us about the trajectory of technological adoption? Deputy editor of The Economist, Tom Standage, writes in 1843 Magazine about the incredible journey of the fork, from a frowned upon "demonstration" of vanity to an indispensable element of our dining tables, drawing on some of the lessons tech developers could take it from it.

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