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Still I’m possibilistic. The next generation is like the last runner in a very long relay race. The race to end extreme poverty has been a marathon, with the starter gun fired in 1800.

““Now, Hans, we have loaded the laundry. The machine will do the work. So now we can go to the library.” In went the laundry, and out cane books. Thank you industrialization, thank you steel mill, thank you power station, thank you chemical-processing industry, for giving us the time to read books.”