Introduction

Our story starts with a swedish grandmother in e magical device called a svet marinewith a simple gesture from a single finger, she could compel this box to replace hours upon hours of her time and years of back breaking labor. Hans rosling's grandma understood something we've all forgotten, that our lives are filled with onders, with inventions and material possessions beyond even the wildest imaginings of pre modern people. And those appliances and computers and machines, they make our lives easier in a thousand different ways, so easy that we forget just how hard it used to be to do the tasks those objects have streamot. We are, forget folk, a privileged people