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The idea that we are exchanging modes of reading that have been largely dominant in Western societies for the past few centuries for new technologically mediated modes of reading that have more in common with the centuries in which books were chained and the life of the mind was seen as a threat to the spiritual order maintained by the Church should not strike any sane observer as a hopeful or desirable development.
The Chained Reader
David Samuels
The idea of a robot uprising has captured our imagination for over a century. The term *robot* comes from a 1920 Czech play called *Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti*, in which synthetic life-forms unhappy with their working conditions organize and revolt, leading to the extinction of humanity. Before their demise, the human characters wonder whether it would have been better to ensure that the robots could not speak a universal language, whether they should have destroyed the Tower of Babel and prevented their children from unseating humanity from its heavenly kingdom.
Emily F. Gorcenski
Norman Packard
Most of them treat interaction design and software architecture as advice, and their programmers and engineers always have the last word. None of those companies' CEOs has any clue as to what is really going on in the engineers' cubicles, so they squeeze the schedule without reason.
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Alan Cooper
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