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In my previous article, I argued that societies advance through four emo­tional regi­mes: from fear, to guilt, to shame, to Sklavenmoral (which, if the patt­­ern holds, is only truly becoming dominant in the most advan­ced mod­ern _...Read More_
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The book is mostly technical, but strives to eschew the naive techno-optimistism or market fundamentalism of conventional smart city hype.
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