The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one. (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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