John Lawrence

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I tried to look at where did the kind of learning we do in schools, where did it come from? . . . It came from . . . the last and the biggest of the empires on this planet, [the British Empire]. What they did was amazing. They created a global computer made up of people. It’s still with us today. It’s called the bureaucratic administrative machine.
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
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