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Rotenstreich’s writing didn’t explore AI but rather the television and the role it played in puncturing the membrane between public and private life. His [observations](https://www.pdcnet.org/ipq/content/ipq_1967_0007_0002_0197_0212) of the influence of technology as an agent of political and electoral change look prescient in light of the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections and the 2016 Brexit campaign.
Emily F. Gorcenski
Norman Packard
In 1849, Mr. Thiers, at a session of the commission on primary education, said: “I wish to make the influence of the clergy all-powerful because I count upon it to propagate that good philosophy which teaches man that he is here on earth to suffer, and not that other philosophy which on the contrary says to man: ‘Enjoy Yourself!’”1 Mr. Thiers was expressing the ethics of the bourgeois class, whose cruel selfishness and narrow-minded intelligence he embodied.
The Right to Be Lazy and Other Essays
Paul Lafargue and Ulrich Baer
As the spoken languages of Africa elevated tonality to a crucial role, the drum language went a difficult step further. It employed tone and only tone. It was a language of a single pair of phonemes, a language composed entirely of pitch contours.
The Information
James Gleick
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