The journey may lead to a dead-end such as a life ofworking in a patent office, or it could lead to changing people’s perception of space and time.
这些道路可能会通向死胡同,如在专利局的工作,它也可能会改变人们对时间和空间的概念。
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Then, every year or two, inventors working for the company could come up with a slightly improved version of the technology and patent it, and the seventeen-year clock would start over.