On the other hand, history suggests that catching-up is more than a matter of merely avoiding mistakes.

ECONOMIST: A century of progress

Black says technology is catching up with hand knitting, and machines can create items that do not have any seams.

CNN: From chemistry to catwalk

Some of his childhood, peacetime memories were perhaps as rare as his wartime ones: catching thrushes by hand in the rocky fields, hand-stitching his own shoes, setting up a chimney-sweep business in Nogent-sur-Marne.

ECONOMIST: Lazare Ponticelli