The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twe…

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The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one. ✨ Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, p.33, Random House
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