Wow - I had no idea. Many thanks to Twitter user @ronadair for sending me this!

A short and beautiful article.

I recommend reading it with this, by Eric Drexler, for dessert:
http://metamodern.com/2009/05/17/how-to-understand-everything-and-why/

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