I'm pulling on my driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time for another drive to work.

Okay.

So I spent a lot of time on this podcast talking about the history of magic.

But today, I'm going to talk about the history of design.

This is something I've talked about in my column, but I thought it was worthy of a whole podcast.

Now, I talk about how I believe that design has gone through iterations and gone through improvement,

that the technology of design has advanced.

Now, before I begin, let me explain this carefully.

What's the quote?

If I can see farther than those that come before me,

it's because I stand on the shoulders of giants,

I believe it's something like the quote.

I'm paraphrasing.

What it means is each advancement happened

because of the work that was done before.

The fact that the current design

is very different from early design is no slight early design.

That each level, each step, each stage came about because we learned stuff from the prior stage and built upon it.

And so that's important to understand that I'm not, I'm talking about the evolution of the technology of design.

And it came about because of all the hard work of all the people who have worked on design.

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