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We Have Stopped Inventing New Technology

New Polity

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Aristotle's City Design

Aristotle proposed honors in the city for those who discover useful innovations. Aristotle famously criticizes hippodemis on the ground that such a plan would lead to harassments and changes of regime. He was interested in major transformations of our whole way of life, not individual problems like cococola or bowing.

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