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Around 300BC, one of the most ambitious projects of all time was undertaken in the Greek-Egyptian city of Alexandria. The Ptolemies wanted to create the intellectual capital of the world, and so they established the famous LIbrary of Alexandria. This was not the first library, but what made it interesting was their extremely ambitious goal. They wa... See more

If people have other ways of making money, the existing systems that create an internet that is largely about creating dissatisfaction in people so that you can sell them beauty products and self-actualization courses loses relative power.

Now think about what happens over time. The  prices  of regulated, non-technological products rise; the prices of less regulated, technologically-powered products fall. Which eats the economy? The regulated sectors continuously grow as a percentage of GDP; the less regulated sectors shrink. At the limit, 99% of the economy will be the reg

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“Limit everything to the essential but do not remove the poetry.”

— Dieter Rams, quoted in Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams