Choosing to Define History the Other Way Around

History is a series of abrupt technological revolutions, each followed by long periods when we were prisoners of our own creations. People should be able to experiment and play in sandboxes to discover new technological and social tools with low stakes,. But certainly there's an overarching shape as some technologies and social structures dominate as vast formless things. For most of the period I cleanly labeled representative democracy, there have been many oscillating sin waves running along the smooth surface of the larger one, little communism.

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