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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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New series for The Republic of the Restless Mind: From Abacus to iPhone

This is an introduction to a new series on computation and the iPhone; the next chapters in the series I began two weeks ago with The Finger That Launched a Thousand Apps

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The Quiet Apostasy

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The Finger That Launched a Thousand Apps

How bombers, protons and strip charts smuggled the future under our thumbs

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America at 250: The Republic of Human Possibility

The American Declaration of Independence contains some of the most remarkable sentences in the English language. Its claim that ‘all men are created equal’ and that this truth is ‘self-evident’ still carries the force of a civilisational th...

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Welcome to the Republic of the Restless Mind

When I started What A Piece of Work is Man, my aim was to explore one of the most obvious, astonishing and neglected facts about the modern world: that almost everything we now take for granted exists because human beings have had to discov...

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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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