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99% Invisible

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The Mad Men of the Operations Room

Each chair in the operations room had a place to set your whiskey class, an ashtray and a set of buttons one could use to control the display screens on each wall. Seven people would sit in a circle discussing and deciding how to proceed with various problems. Monsieur Beyten says they weren't consciously trying to make it look futuristic. It certainly was not our idea at all. We didn't make science fiction. We made science reality which is something different"

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