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adhesive using a substance called "microspheres," which As a payments industry veteran,
could attach to surfaces and be easily peeled away. Six I sometimes feel as if I'm writing one
years later, 3M scientist Arthur Fry found a use for
microspheres during his Wednesday evening church continuous story about the everchanging
choir practice. Fry had been looking for a better way to commerce sphere, from early beginnings
bookmark his hymnal, according to CNN reporters Nick to modern-day solutions.
Glass and Tim Hume.

"Not everyone saw the value in the idea, says Fry, but the "Just as the telecommunications industry's multi-billion-
team continued to lobby for their idea and eventually dollar investments in broadband [fiber-optic] networks
in 1980, after extensive market testing, 3M released the gave rise to waves of new data-intensive applications for
product onto the market. From that point, the Post-it computers and smartphones, the massive experiment of
was unstoppable," Glass and Hume wrote in an April 24, electrical generating and transmission infrastructure in
2013, article titled, "The 'hallelujah moment' behind the the late nineteenth and early twentieth century paved the
invention of the Post-it note." way for city-altering technologies that had nothing to do
with lighting," he wrote in the book.
Smart urban utopias

Today's technologies are embedded in the fabric of our Whatever you're chasing—a story, new client, invention or
lives, but it takes time for them to fully assimilate into home furnishings—give yourself the gift of time and let
new possibilities speak to you.
mainstream culture. John Lorinc is a Canadian journalist
and author of Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and
the Pursuit of Urban Utopias, published in August 2022. By Dale S. Laszig, senior staff writer at The Green Sheet and manag-
taking a long view of urban landscapes over time, he found ing director at DSL Direct LLC, is a payments industry journalist and
technologies frequently advance beyond their original content strategist. Connect via email dale@dsldirectllc.com, LinkedIn
value propositions to address urban and ecological www.linkedin.com/in/dalelaszig/ and Twitter https://twitter.com/
challenges. DSLdirect.