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“We can’t go back” is a favorite rejoinder to technoskeptics. We just don’t think it’s a compelling argument for much of anything.

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From the Sublime to the Ridiculous, part two

European communist states were, perhaps, the ultimate manifestation of the modern conflation of technological development with progress. But with such [...]

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