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We Need Rosie from the Jetsons, Not Another Chatbot
Inventions can be roughly classified by their effects on the economy and broader society in three ways. The first is the classic industrial machine, which allows people to produce more goods with fewer hours of labour. These machines have o...
We Make Rivers Flow Backwards
This is Part 3 of a Three-Part Series on the Great Lakes
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Part 2:
Chicago was the great boom town of the late nineteenth century, growing from about 30,000 people in 1850 to 1.7 million by 1900. Almost all of its waste,...
From Niagara to the Atlantic
Part two of a three-part series on the infrastructure of the Great Lakes.
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At the eastern end of Lake Erie sits the City of Buffalo, with its great architecture and faded charm demonstrating its former importanc...
The Great Lakes Are a Managed System
(This is Part One of a Three-Part Series on the Great Lakes)
If you stand at the foot of the Scarborough Bluffs, along Chicago’s lakefront, or on the Sleeping Giant, you can look out over what seems like an endless ocean.
The five Grea...
The Standardization Revolution
We take for granted that when we buy a lamp at the store and plug it into the wall, it will fit. When we buy a light bulb for it, we’ll be able to screw it in. Pipes and lumber come in standard sizes. Little over a century ago, none of this...
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Jonathan English is a writer and infrastructure policy consultant. He is a Fellow at NYU's Marron Institute of Urban Management. He writes about infrastructure, history, and the systems that built the modern world.
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