Virginia Postrel Radically Quotations

Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea.

More than two decades after the birth of Louise Brown, and all the hysteria that surrounded her 'test tube' conception, we should know that institutions, not technologies, create dystopias. Artificially conceived children are everywhere, beloved by their parents, and they haven't radically altered our world.