i grew up in the in the car business, tat indirectly. My stepfather had a little buic dealer ship in the town where i was born. He repaired em as best he could in his own garage with his mechanics. Just like if i had to change the oil myself, i could do that. I could figure out how to make the engine work again. For all the wonders of technology, i wish we wouldn't be taken so far from being able to do things with our own two hands and mind.
On this special feature episode, President Bill Clinton interviews 99% Invisible host and creator Roman Mars.
Roman Mars has spent his career chronicling these bits of human ingenuity that we so often take for granted—things like the utility codes, the curb cuts, the traffic signals, and much more. As host of the 99% Invisible and, with Kurt Kohlstedt, co-author of the book The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design, his work challenges all of us to look up and around, and to think about the how and the why of design around the world in a different way.
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