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"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station."
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"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."
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"Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood."
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"Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains."
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"It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California."
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"Technology empowers the less empowered. If there is a strong force that bring a change in the lives of those on the margins it is technology. It serves as a leveler and a springboard."
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"New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information."
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"There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable."
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"If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people's only reason for not abandoning e-books."
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"The ultimate form of our technological achievement will be identical to the beginning state of this nature."
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"The civilized man is technologically ahead of - intellectually behind - his time."
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"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."
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"It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information."
Information
"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet."
Future
"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet."
Future
"A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding."
Technology
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station."
Technology
"I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary."
People
"The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it."
Time
"Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort."
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"I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil."
Evil
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