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AI Summary
- Matthew Crawford discusses the 'Smart City' vision where urban life is optimized by data and human unpredictability is treated as a 'bug' to be fixed
- Discussion of the spiritual and practical costs of 'frictionless' existence as tech giants govern like nation-states and subscriptions replace ownership
- Examples of defiance—skateboarders and ULEZ camera destruction—illustrate the fight to reclaim the 'unruly felicities' of a life truly worth living