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Fundraising Appeal
Charity has become big business 鈥� but what鈥檚 the best way to elicit donations?
SWIFT
How a system for sending sensitive financial data securely may have created a new problem.
Wedgwood
Josiah Wedgwood鈥檚 pottery was a precursor to the 鈥渢rickle-down鈥� theory of fashion.
Glasses
How many people on earth need glasses and don鈥檛 have them? An eye-popping 2.5 billion.
Vickrey Turnstile
The electromechanical Vickrey Turnstile worked well in theory, but was never built.
GPS
GPS is sometimes called the 鈥渋nvisible utility鈥�. What would happen if it stopped working?
Bonsack Machine
One historian of the cigarette industry reckons it invented much of modern marketing.
Prohibition
The idea of the 鈥渞ational criminal鈥� helps explain why Prohibition was so widely flouted.
Interface Message Processor
The Interface Message Processor: the most important hunk of silicon you鈥檝e never heard of.
Canned Food
What does canned food have in common with Silicon Valley? More than you might think.
