"New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else."

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"While we are curling down in our comfort zone, the perverted talents of connectivity-designers drive us surreptitiously into a blind alley of addiction. If, however, we succeed in impeding mobiles' unlimited rule, we may be able to relish the fragrance of the 'moment' but also sense the vital spark and spirit of "otherness. ['Even if the world goes down, my mobile will save me']"

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"Technology favors horrible people."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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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."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"When all is said and done, the invention of writing must be reckoned not only as a brilliant innovation but as a surpassing good for humanity. And assuming that we survive long enough to use their inventions wisely, I believe the same will be said of the modern Thoths and Prometheuses who are today devisingcomputers and programs at the edge of machine intelligence."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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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."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"The ultimate form of our technological achievement will be identical to the beginning state of this nature."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don't have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with."

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"New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else."