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Failure of Technological Utopianism.

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Format:
Video
Series:
The Weapons That Changed the World ; Season 1, Episode 16
Language:
English
Physical Description:
1 online resource (12 minutes)
Place of Publication:
[Place of publication not identified] : JenCor Entertainment, 2022.
Language Note:
In English.
System Details:
video file
Summary:
"In Iraq and Afghanistan, we had all this high technology. We understood computers. We understood high-tech war machines, but we didn't understand simple things about culture and language. We hadn't bothered to study the people that we were fighting among, so I thought the fact that we couldn't understand this guy who was trying to tell us something,for all we knew he was going to tell us who the bombmaker was. But we had no idea because we could not communicate with them."
Notes:
Title from resource description page (viewed March 16, 2026).

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