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Loyalty, which asserts the continuity of past and future, binding time into a whole, is the root of human strength; there is no good to be done without it.
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
Japanese zoning is hierarchical, meaning that less disruptive uses (such as houses or small shops) are allowed in areas otherwise demarcated for more disruptive uses (such as regional shopping centers or office towers), meaning that the optimal degree of use mixture can emerge organically.
Arbitrary Lines
M. Nolan Gray
In 1945's “As We May Think,” we encounter Vannevar Bush’s thought experiment of a “memory expander,” a machine that serves to organize its user’s thoughts and semi-automatically bring related ideas together to help the user synthesize disparate insights and facts into new, larger works.
The Memex Method
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