Epigrams

Epigrams:

Thus it is clear that the human race has at best a very limited capacity for solving even straightforward social problems. How then is it going to solve the far more difficult and subtle problem of reconciling freedom with technology? Technology presents clear-cut material advantages, whereas freedom is an abstraction that means different things to different people, and its loss is easily obscured by propaganda and fancy talk.

Ted Kaczynsky
“Industrial Society and Its Future”

We have reached an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability; and something is bound to come of it.

Vannevar Bush
“As we may think”

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