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Many kinds of malfunctions are possible. The machine may produce luxuries while necessities are scarce. The machine may produce dangerous, toxic and destructive products instead of healthy and beneficial ones. The machine may fatally damage the air, water and environment upon which we all depend. The machine may dehumanize its workers. And the mach
... See moreCharles Reich • The Greening of America
Egypt exhibits, in that brief record of its remotest beginnings, the primary problem of liberty and civilisation. It is the fact that men actually lose variety by complexity.
G K. Chesterton • The Everlasting Man (with linked TOC)
Four great men—Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton—are pre-eminent in the creation of science.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Humanity in a technological world
Philip Powis • 3 cards
En prélude au reportage Hubczejak prononça un discours très bref où, avec la franchise brutale qui lui était habituelle, il déclarait que l'humanité devait s'honorer d'être « la première espèce animale de l'univers connu à organiser elle-même les conditions de son propre remplacement ».
Michel Houellebecq • Les particules élémentaires (French Edition)
George Orwell wrote, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” Controlling the past begins by knowing it; the stories we tell about who we were and what we did shape what we can and will do. Despair is also often premature: it’s a form of impatience as well as of certainty.