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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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a key part of any Utopian project

A key part of any Utopian project should be to discuss widely and think deeply about the human natures we want to have and the ones we do not want to have, and to devise the kinds of social arrangements that will support and reward those characteristics.

—p.24 Technofatalism and the future--is a world without Foxconn even possible? (15) by Bob Hughes
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forces that demonstrably retard economic growth

The frequent claim that inequality promotes accumulation and growth does not get much support from history. On the contrary, great economic inequality has always been correlated with extreme concentration of political power, and that power has always been used to widen the income gaps through rent-…

—p.17 Technofatalism and the future--is a world without Foxconn even possible? (15) by Branko Milanović
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the guys who understand it

[...] 'Technology' often implicitly refers to something you are expected to turn over to 'the guys who understand it'.

—p.11 Introduction (11) by Bob Hughes