Report, if you have a problem with this page“ A world without glass would strike at the foundation of modern progress: the extended lifespans that come from understanding the cell, the virus, and the bacterium; the genetic knowledge of what makes us human; the astronomer's knowledge of our place in the universe. No material on Earth mattered more to those conceptual breakthroughs than glass. ”
Steven Johnson
From : How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
