Jul 4, 2012
Homesteading
“In the enthusiasm of our rapid mechanical
conquests we have overlooked some things. We have perhaps driven men into the
service of the machine, instead of building machinery for the service of man.
But could anything be more natural? So long as we were engaged in conquest,
our spirit was the spirit of conquerors. The time has now come when we must be
colonists, must make this house habitable which is still without
character.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
(1939). Contrast the Quality Without a
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- Kartik Agaram, 2012-08-16: "The future offers very little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence." -- Norbert Weiner, "God and Golem, Inc.," 1964 http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cybernetics
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