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2026.22: Luceing Their Mind

electric cars are focused first and foremost on efficiency, and not only is that different than performance, Ferrari's calling card, but also representative of the parts of modern society — including tech — that leave everyone feeling increasingly alienated (and why, surprisingly, AI might help).
— Ben Thompson

2w ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine and can no longer live without it. We cannot even imagine life without machines. Yet machines have enslaved us. They determine our movements and our thoughts.

4w ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, and the machine now invents us. We do not live, we are lived.

1mo ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine and now we are ourselves parts of the machine.

1mo ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, and now the machine is in the process of reinventing us.

1mo ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machines, but we do not know how to live with them.

1mo ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents, and only the most radical knowledge of the authenticity of being can save us.

1mo ago

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