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Alain de Botton on the Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

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The Invisibility of Technology

This chapter explores the idea that we often take technology for granted as it becomes a normal part of our lives, and argues that histories of technology should focus not only on when things were invented, but also on when they started to become invisible to us.

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