One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
It is a medium of entertainment which permits mil
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It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted t
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I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.
Technological progress has merely provided us wit
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
For a list of all the ways technology has failed
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For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
The most important and urgent problems of the tec
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The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.
Once upon a time we were just plain people.
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Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.
For a successful technology, reality must take pr
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology fo
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
We are becoming the servants in thought, as in ac
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We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us.
It is difficult not to wonder whether that combin
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It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.
The factory of the future will have only two empl
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The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
The system of nature, of which man is a part, ten
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that scie
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
The machine does not isolate man from the great p
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The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
It has become appallingly obvious that our techno
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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools.
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Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on sci
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
The drive toward complex technical achievement of
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The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to
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I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
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