11.13.2018

This kind of story…

Alexandra N. Wilson (@AlexandraNWil)
Meet the #ForbesUnder30 Class of 2019: From creating milk without cows to trucks without drivers, these innovators are shaking up some of the world's stodgiest industries. ⁦‪@Forbes‬⁩ ⁦‪@ForbesUnder30‬⁩ forbes.com/sites/alexandr…

…always reminds me about a piece I read in the New Yorker several decades ago, a short story about the last guy on Earth who remembered how to do long division. Fortunately, he was an American; he instantly became a top-secret military asset, the person who would save us if an enemy somehow managed to disable all our calculators.

Who's going to save us when we forget how to milk a cow?

[Full disclosure: I never knew. So there's also that.]

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