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There was a political corollary to this prelapsarian dream

The problem that Baumol and Bowen identified was subtler than that: They named a condition called "cost disease." While classical music hasn't grown any more productive, the cost of producing it keeps increasing.

Nixon's scabrous attorney general

It's sometimes hard to grasp the pecuniary motives of the big tech companies, because they strike such an idealistic pose.

David Foster Wallace called the condition Total Noise. With it, our reading became peripatetic, less focused.