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Travel with Rick Steves

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The Otherness of Modernity

"There's no turning back. And so the question is, are we going to converge and diverge as we become more global?" he says. "Most people are going to be living in square apartments with wifi and running water." But at higher levels, once you have all these things provided, 'people are going to diverge' He adds: We can't fight modernity but we can strive for that otherness.

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