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We are the slaves of our technical improvement and we can no more return a New Hampshire farm to the self-contained state in which it was maintained in 1800 than we can, by taking thought, add a cubit to our stature or, what is more to the point, diminish it.

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Kretzer, M. (2017). Current Global Challenges, the Concept of Adaptive Architecture, and the Possibilities of Information Materials. In: Information Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-35150-6_1

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