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In the early days of humankind, a young man excitedly ran up to the leader of the tribe. “You won’t believe it! I have an awesome invention! See, I know that our parents invented the wheel, but the wheel has all kinds of problems. It’s too hard to produce. It rolls away on you when you want to stand still. It’s hard to understand and to describe to people—’it’s like a thin slice of smooth rock with a hole in the middle’ isn’t exactly easy to grok.”