Like other modern architects, he employed metal, glass and laminated wood materials that we take for granted today but that in the 1940s symbolized the future.
It has been said that one of the reasons why English colonized so much of the world was that whatever the weather conditions he met abroad, he had already experienced something like them at home.
Google Inc. 's move to offer its own Web browser begs a question about a technology that most people now take for granted: What exactly is a Web browser?