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How Books Will Become Machines
Early printed books copied manuscripts
Thirty years after the ‘invention’ of the printing press, most of the books print- ed were just copies of medieval manuscripts. The ‘readers’ just wanted more of the same. For several decades, this paradigm-shifting technology essentially produced ‘old-styled’ books. Old-styled…
The Functional Art: An Introduction To Information Graphics And Visualization
Exaptations
But evolution eventually crossed paths with another possible function: to control the movement of air around the feathered extremities, which allowed a primi-tive form of gliding. This is an example of what paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould called exaptation, by which a trait…