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What did you want to be when you grew up? Maybe you wanted to be an astronaut, a ballerina, or a fireman … whatever it was, it probably wasn’t what you’re doing now. But as inevitable as your day job may seem, you’d be doing very different work if you were born 100 years earlier.…

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Aug 13, 2012

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