it wasn’t until I talked to Kevin Kelly, the legendary founding editor of Wired magazine and a tool enthusiast, that I truly understood why, as makers, we should embrace the diversity, and why I, personally, have so many tools. “Freeman Dyson, a famous physicist, suggested that science moves forward by inventing new tools,” Kevin began as we talked on the phone one morning all about tools. “When we invented the telescope, suddenly we had astrophysicists, and astronomy, and we moved forward. The invention of the microscope opened up the small world of biology to us. In a broad sense, science
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