The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.

Norbert Wiener
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In a world where everyone is a slave to technology, we must strive to never fall back into the comfort of being a slave to technology. Instead, we must push further and further to improve the way we live. We cannot rest on our laurels and think that all of our problems have been solved. Instead, we must rise up every time we fall.

Source: The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society

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