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11 November 2025

10 November 2025

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  • curprev 03:1103:11, 10 November 2025‎ Mbauwens talk contribs‎ 1,795 bytes +1,795‎ Created page with " =Description= Chor Pharn: "The idea of world-machines belongs to the writer and systems theorist Venkatesh Rao. In a series of essays and the collaborative reading project Contraptions Book Club, he proposed that history can be read as a succession of machines, each built to coordinate a planet increasingly aware of itself. The first “modernity machine,” he suggests, was assembled between 1200 and 1600, during the Mongol and Islamic ages of exchange. It ran on na..."
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