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We are now at a point where we must decide whether we are to have a future on this planet, not because of the atomic bomb, but because of the way we have treated the world.
— William Faulkner, Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (1950)

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We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, and now the machine is bent on inventing us.

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We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, and now the machine is reinventing us. We must learn to think in a new way, or perish.

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We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, but we have not invented the controls that belong with the machine.

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We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine and the machine has possessed us, and we must either slay the machine or ourselves.

2w 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.

3w ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents. The machine has possessed us, and we must either master it or perish.

3w ago

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

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