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Part 1: What If Plastic Was Never Invented?

Geography Is Everything

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What's the Pattern of New Technology?

A lot of new inventions have to go through a process before they can be used by the mass market. Synthetic plastic, for example, contains no molecules found in nature. So you need a laboratory in order to create these things. And now they've become so common as we've been talking about.

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