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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost ...more

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We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it ...more

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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.

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Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex.

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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracte...more

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As in all such technological nightmares, the principal task is to foresee what is possible; to educate use and misuse; and to prevent its organization...more

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I find these comparisons particularly poignant: life versus death, hope versus fear. Space exploration and the highly mechanized destruction of people...more