“When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.” ~Alexander Chase
“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.” ~B.F. Skinner
“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.” ~Sydney J. Harris
“There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn’t any good.”-Robert Pirsig
“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. “-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” -Bill Gates
“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.” Max Frisch
“A free America… means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.” - Frank Lloyd Wright
The Technium
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