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Letter: Needs must

Published 28 August 2013

From Ed Subitzky

I noticed that two recent readers’ letters referred to the saying “Necessity is the mother of invention” (20 July, p 28, and 3 August, p 30). In an age when we are so dependent on smartphones and other gadgets, perhaps this should be amended to: “Invention is the mother of necessity.”
New York, US

Issue no. 2932 published 31 August 2013

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