Word: genii
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...electric light. Our inability to uninvent will prove ever more troublesome as our technology proliferates and refines more and more unimagined, seemingly irrelevant wants. Driven by "needs" for the unnecessary, we remain impotent to conjure the needs away. Our Aladdin's lamp of technology makes myriad new genii appear, but cannot make them disappear. The automobile - despite all we have learned of its diabolism - cannot be conjured away. The most we seem able to do is to make futile efforts to appease the automobile -by building parking temples on choice urban real estate and by deferring to the automobile...