People Behind the Artifact
Penicillin, transistor, assembly line. These great discoveries and inventions charted the progress of civilisation. I remember well the discoverers and inventors and their legacies.
Theology, Enlightenment, Communism. Concepts and theories make people do good and bad things. I can recall, too, their prophets and founders.
Parks, traffic light, shopping. Things which grease modern life, making it bearable or even enjoyable. A multitude of clever and stupid things surround me, but I hardly know the people who created them.
Every man-made object, space, and idea must have its originator. It would be an interesting exercise to trace back its “human history” — the people behind the artifacts.