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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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Cheap Complex Devices is a book comprised of (A) a note by the editor,
John Compton Sundman (B) an introduction to the Hofstadter Competition,
written by the Committe on Computer-Written Novels of the Society
for Analytical Engines, (C) the computer-written novel entitled "Bees,
or The Floating-Point Error," and (D) the computer-written novel called
"The Bonehead Computer Museum."
The editor's note and the committee's Introduction are viewable online.
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