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What's behind the human need to count everything?
The human urge to document and quantify has been long and varied. Multiple systems of measurement have been devised over thousands of years. But it’s a way to make sense of our world. So, too, is the desire to encapsulate what life is like at a given time, and store it safely somewhere for future populations to examine.
Keith Hoosten: author of Empire of the Sum: the rise and reign of the pocket calculator
James Vincent: author of Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement
Nick Yablon: author of The invention of the time capsule
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