Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.

Rollo May
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  2. Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous. - James Rozoff

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  4. We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues. - Alberto Manguel

  5. When an inscrutable technology becomes an invisible technology, we would be wise to be concerned. At that point, the technology's assumptions and intentions have infiltrated our own desires and actions. We no longer know whether the software is aiding s or controlling us. We're behind... - Nicholas Carr

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  1. It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.

  2. We in our age are faced with a strange paradox. Never before have we had so much information in bits and pieces flooded upon us by radio and television and satellite, yet never before have we had so little inner certainty about our own being....

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  4. Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves...

  5. It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.

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