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As is true of most great inventions, popular culture’s most effective Rorschach tests are entirely accidental, whereas the most meticulously planned weirdness tends to flop hardest.

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As ChatGPT marks its third anniversary, it offers a simple lesson to enforcers and courts alike: In technology markets, the most powerful check on monopoly is often the next invention.

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Before the invention of electronic games and smartphones, that was a more complicated question for parents.

The display also featured Dahl's personal set of boules, along with his own invention of a magnet on a string, which Dahl used for picking up each boule.

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He is best known for his invention of the cotton gin, a machine that transformed cotton production, with tragic consequences for workers.

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