CHAPTER 1
The Knowledge Funnel
How Discovery Takes Shape
THE UNITED STATES in the years after World War II was a restless place, engaged in an audacious social experiment that would eventually transform how and where Americans worked, played, and consumed. Victorious with the Allied nations against the Axis, then instrumental in the rebuilding of Europe, the United States had become the West’s undisputed military and economic champion. Not all was cheery, mind you. Communist powers posed a new threat, the nuclear age had dawned, and Cold War anxieties ran high. Yet Americans felt confident in their place atop the global order and free to invent new ways to enjoy their burgeoning prosperity.
The automobile was central to the sense of open-ended ...
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