Six Stories- the memory palace
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The Importance of the Future
In 1843, Elijah Otis stood on a wooden platform 30 feet off the ground. The elevator was loaded with lumber and tools and barrels just like the one had been that day in Yonkers. And down below on the floor stood hundreds of gentlemen and ladies who didn't want to spend their night out in the town being crushed by construction equipment.
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