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If the primary indictment of technological innovation is that it has inundated us with too much information or too many options, those are good problems compared with the more serious problems our ancestors faced.
Evasive Entrepreneurs and the Future of Governance
Adam Thierer
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.… Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. —ARTHUR C. CLARKE, “HAZARDS OF PROPHECY”
The MVP Machine
Ben Lindbergh, Travis Sawchik
Had the Schoolmen with their complex oral culture understood the Gutenberg technology, they could have created a new synthesis of written and oral education, instead of bowing out of the picture and allowing the merely visual page to take over the educational enterprise. The oral Schoolmen did not meet the new visual challenge of print, and the resulting expansion or explosion of Gutenberg technology was in many respects an impoverishment of the culture,
Understanding Media
Marshall McLuhan
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