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In the short story collection The Sentinel, Arthur C. Clarke posits about the human race before meeting any specimen. His alien character, seeing the earthen infrastructure, wonders whether the humans are just incredibly great engineers or whether they had room for art and spectacle.
Had we been wired differently, us humans might have achieved all these inventions by ourselves. It's just that we happen to have room for dreaming and inventing stories. Some of the designs of devices are simply life imitating art.
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