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As I watched a bright-yellow robot selecting timepiece components earlier this year out of 26,000 towering boxes at the Omega production facility in Bienne, Switzerland, one fact my guide shared stopped me in my tracks: that the robots never put boxes back in the same place. Why? Because they don’t need to. Their “brains” don’t work like ours. They simply remember where they last put each box, no matter how long ago, with no need for a sorting system. Technology is rapidly ch

“I have never not known the name of Diana Scarisbrick. The late jewelry historian’s seeming ubiquity and scores of publications reflect her boundless passion for jewelry and her deep intelligence. It is clear to me from speaking with her colleagues for my article that her many discoveries, as she called them, will continue to benefit us all.”

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