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What a piece of Work is Man!

Norman Lewis

A celebration of humanity as the planet’s history-making, problem-solving subjects.

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    Norman is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Hungarian think tank, MCC Brussels. Formerly a director at PwC and the Director of Technology Research at Orange UK. His Substack is What a Piece of Work is Man: https://normanlewis.substack.com/

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