1400s: Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Italian pronunciation:
[leoˈnardo da ˈvintʃi]
pronunciation (
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info); April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519,
Old Style) was an
Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist,
cartographer,
botanist, and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.
2000s: Ipods, Facebook, Ebooks, 40 hr work weeks.
How did we manage to go in reverse?