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the slow, ugly process of becoming something nobody can yet imagine.
means The gradual process by which something grows, improves, or unfolds into a more complete or advanced form.
from From the Old French 'desveloper,' to unwrap or unfold — 'des-' (undo) plus a root tied to wrapping or enveloping, the same family that gives us 'envelope.' So at heart, development is literally un-wrapping: taking something bundled up and tightly hidden, and slowly letting it open out into the light. The figurative sense — growth, progress, becoming — bloomed in English over the 18th and 19th centuries.
- word root
- means to unwrap, to remove the wrapper
- brain growth
- prefrontal cortex finishes developing around age 25
- economics
- GDP rose; word development quietly entered global politics
- software
- most code time is reading, not writing
- film era
- developing meant bathing images in toxic chemicals
shenzhen special economic zone — chinese coastal city that grew from 30,000 people in 1979 to 12 million by 2020, driving china's economic transformation
marshall plan — us program that invested $13 billion (1948-1952) to rebuild western europe after wwii, establishing modern development policy