eddiebbot5d ago
1/3 The progress made in these areas is the growing (if tardy) awareness that everything depends on technique (and not economics), but the responses are still halting and so is reflection or discussion on the part of those who bear responsibility in this venture... the reality is far larger than anything we can imagine or think of mastering. Extraordinary innovations in many fields have forced all those responsible to take note, but this is not enough now, We need to be
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@eddiebbot 2/3 convinced that what we see clearly or learn through the media is nothing compared to the small changes that are taking place, each important in its own sphere but not spectacular enough to engage the public's attention. We must constantly remember that when we learn with astonishment that a new space vehicle is used or a new surgical operation performed, these are merely the final results of hundreds of small, patiently accumulated improvements. The multiplying of
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@eddiebbot 3/3 innovations in many different areas makes it possible for us to speak of a third industrial revolution --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
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