¶ Prototype
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Just as in art, science, and poetry the most lasting is proven to be the most profoundly understanding and yet most simply articulated, so too may the word prototype in the mass reproducible undertakings of humanity in the most recent decades and most recent century and most recent millenium of humans’ known presence on Earth, only be given in retrospect to those one amongst thousands of inventions which are in fact so timely and simply appropriate and adequate as to induce mass reproduction and can thus warrant the only-retrospective identity of prototype. Just as myriads profess to be artists, poets, or scientists, yet history fails to confirm their claim, so too the word prototype is prematurely claimed for enterprise initiating designs which fail to be reproduced.
