"Paperwhite is the Kindle we've always wanted to build - the technology didn't exist to build a display with this level of contrast, resolution, brightness and battery life, so our engineers invented it, " said Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Founder and CEO.
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On the other hand, shortly before our show starts, Gutenberg invented the printing press.
What could be more American than Fume Blanc, a wine that was essentially made up here on our shores out of whole cloth, invented to help California differentiate itself and pull out from under the shadow of French wines, something it has long since done.
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Our recommended system did not exist until we invented it.
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After all, our middle class was built by workers who invented products and made products and sold products -- the best in the world -- all around the world.
We invented silicon-based helpers to crunch our numbers and increase our productivity, and they have bound us with soft shackles of convenience and a sense of connectedness.
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.
"The 'help' has evolved over the years but the fact remains that our sport is damn hard, the Tour was invented as a stunt, and very tough (riders) have competed for a century and all looked for advantages, from hopping on trains 100 years ago to EPO now, " he said.
Mr. LINNELL: I can't believe that guy, like, invented the time machine and went backwards and stole our ideas.
As increasing global competition put pressure on the American industry, we became complacent, believing that our historical strengths in innovation would ensure that new clean energy technologies would continue to be invented here.
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Pirates in Captain Kidd's time bore "almost no relation to our modern perception of pirates, " said Konstam, noting that everything we generally associate with them was invented subsequently.
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