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John Lanchester, né le 25 février 1962 à Hambourg, est un journaliste et romancier britannique. Il est né à Hambourg, fut élevé à Hong Kong et reçut son éducation en Angleterre, à Gresham’s School, à Holt , entre 1972 et 1980, puis à St John’s College à Oxford. Il est marié à Miranda Carter, avec qui il a deux enfants, et il vit à Londres. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. février 1962
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“The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.”

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John Lanchester livre Capital

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“Soap prevented more deaths than penicillin. That’s technology, not science.”

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The Case Against Civilization https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/18/the-case-against-civilization (September 18, 2017), The New Yorker.

“though, technology had nothing to do with science. Many of our most significant inventions are pure tools, with no scientific method behind them. Wheels and wells, cranks and mills and gears and ships’ masts, clocks and rudders and crop rotation: all have been crucial to human and economic development, and none historically had any connection with what we think of today as science. Some of the most important things we use every day were invented long before the adoption of the scientific method.”

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The Case Against Civilization https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/18/the-case-against-civilization (September 18, 2017), '.

“We are more connected in more ways to more people than we ever have been at any point in human history. This is changing everything, and it would be deeply strange if it didn’t change money too.”

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When Bitcoin Grows Up https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n08/john-lanchester/when-bitcoin-grows-up (April 21, 2016), The London Review of Books

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