00:00Legend says a craftsman in ancient Rome invented a flexible glass that could bend without breaking.
00:06He presented it to the emperor, hoping for a great reward.
00:10But the emperor feared this glass would lower the value of gold and silver in the markets.
00:16So he ordered the inventor's life to be ended immediately,
00:20to prevent the secret from spreading and the economy collapsing.
00:24And just like that, flexible glass vanished forever.
00:27Historians today consider it only a symbolic tale,
00:31but it reminds us how fear can sometimes extinguish the flame of innovation.
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