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It has to start from an open-source and interconnected approach. Platforms cannot own citizens in the way that Facebook owns and monetizes its users.
Why Its Time for a New Approach to Civic Tech
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The sectionmen and their families communicate little with one another, and the railroad—their employer—is their only source of contact with the wider world. Little wonder that at each milepost, Johnson finds families “driven to eccentricity by isolation.”
Declining Cities, Declining Unions: Urban Sprawl and U.S. Inequality - Dissent Magazine
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Autonomy—in tandem with electrification, which will make driving cheaper and thus encourage more of it—might turn out to be a suburban carcinogen that triggers metastatic sprawl.
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