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<P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 25px;">Once upon a time, in the heyday of social prognostication, many Americans believed that gadget-related knowledge would surely yield immeasurable leaps forward in the progress of the human species. Yet as David Graeber argued in his famous </SPAN><EM STYLE="outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: minion-pro, Baskerville, 'Baskerville Old Face', 'Hoefler Text', Garamond, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25px;">Baffler</EM><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 25px;">essay, "Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit," Information-Age capitalism has mainly given us better ways to shop-and handed the government unprecendented opportunities to watch.</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 25px;">Was the gilded promise of innovation a con game all along? What does Peter Thiel, the renowned Silicon Valley author and investor, think aboutthe reality of technological progress? How do Thiel's libertarian principles stand in relation to Graeber's revolutionary anarchism? Come, see the future vanish-and possibly reconstitute itself-before your very eyes!</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: minion-pro, Baskerville, 'Baskerville Old Face', 'Hoefler Text', Garamond, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25px;"><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 25px; font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">With David Graeber and Peter Thiel</SPAN><BR STYLE="outline: none; font-family: minion-pro, Baskerville, 'Baskerville Old Face', 'Hoefler Text', Garamond, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25px;"><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 25px; font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hosted by John Summers</SPAN><BR STYLE="outline: none; font-family: minion-pro, Baskerville, 'Baskerville Old Face', 'Hoefler Text', Garamond, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25px;"><A STYLE="outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: minion-pro, Baskerville, 'Baskerville Old Face', 'Hoefler Text', Garamond, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25px; color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" HREF="http://www.generalsociety.org/" REL="nofollow nofollow"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen</SPAN></A></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 25px;">McNally Jackson will be the bookseller at this event.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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