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The Trillion-Dollar Trap

How Europe Was Engineered to Lose the Tech Wars

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Adrian Monck
Aug 07, 2025
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Grüezi!

  • It’s summer so forgive a slightly different 7 Things this week!

  • I just spent a weekend at a fascinating conference in the Piedmont hills. It was close to Ivrea, a small Piedmontese town that invented the personal computer and ended up as a UNESCO monument to industrial archaeology.

  • The modernist buildings Adriano Olivetti commissioned – radical sta…

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