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The Boring Fix
Sugar, salt and clean water, mixed by a parent in the dark. Deaths of children from dehydration fell from five million a year to under half a million.
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The Art Of Putting It Back Together
A twelve-euro bearing fails in year nine. Nobody can reach it: the drum was welded shut at the factory. The machine is not broken. It is finished.
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The People Who Said No
Civilisation runs on yes. More, faster, again, by default. Every so often a person declines the upgrade, and finds the one door the machine kept telling them was a wall.
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The Voice That Came Back
A man who lost his voice to disease speaks again — his own, melody and all, pulled from thought. The same machine that freed it can read what he never said.
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The Things That Work
Somewhere on a quiet street, a wooden cabinet of books has stood for seven years. Strangers add books. Strangers take them. It has never been empty.