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It reveals a nation in the midst of a dramatic transition, a world where a farmer could, for the first time, purchase the same manufactured goods as a city dweller, a world where the boundaries of the local community were being radically expanded by a book that arrived in the mail. They are the masters of this craft. The low initial price of a new printer, for example, is often a deceptive lure. This was the birth of information architecture as a core component of commerce, the moment that the grid of products on a screen became one of the most valuable and contested pieces of real estate in the world. We find it in the first chipped flint axe, a tool whose form was dictated by the limitations of its material and the demands of its function—to cut, to scrape, to extend the power of the human hand. It acts as an external memory aid, offloading the burden of recollection and allowing our brains to focus on the higher-order task of analysis.