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Decades later, Whitman realized that while technology changes, human biology does not. He sat down to codify these instincts into what would become the marketing cult classic, . The Foundation: The Life-Force 8 Whitman took it further: they don't actually want
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The year was 1924, and a young copywriter named hadn't been born yet, but the psychological "triggers" he would eventually build a career on were already hard at work in the smoky offices of Madison Avenue.