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A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

Setting really tough targets encourages risk-taking, for good and bad

Eventually the improbable, the implausible or the once-impossible will become inevitable

But, try as strongmen might, the jokes always get away

The internet has replaced door-to-door evangelists with online influencers

Call it the Roger Hallam extended universe