Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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Technology frightens me to death. It’s designed by engineers to
Technology frightens me to death. It’s designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.
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Technology presumes there’s just one right way to do things
Technology presumes there’s just one right way to do things and there never is.
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I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.
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All this modern technology just makes people try to do
All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master
The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button.
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Technology is teaching us to be human again.
Technology is teaching us to be human again.
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The real danger is not that computers will begin to
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.