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Brian T. Watson
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Headed Into the Abyss: The Story of Our Time, and the Future We'll Face
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“what Silicon Valley has learned is that the capacities of humans are relatively static while the capacities of machines are unlimited. Therefore, in the Silicon Valley culture, software and machinery are exciting, and humans are not. What this Silicon Valley perspective”
― Headed Into the Abyss: The Story of Our Time, and the Future We'll Face
― Headed Into the Abyss: The Story of Our Time, and the Future We'll Face
“We are striving, constructive beings, full of creative energies and never-resting minds. We are insatiable in every way, and we chafe at restraints. We build things. The human spirit is a bounding power and it cannot be restrained by force, necessity, or reason. It is simultaneously our strength and our weakness. The nature of human nature is, in fact, one of the reasons that capitalism has mostly beat out any system of pure socialism; capitalism (for better and worse) allows for the full expression of individual autonomy, initiative, inventiveness, and athletic or intellectual potential. It is very hard to imagine modern man returning to and maintaining a subsistence”
― Headed Into the Abyss: The Story of Our Time, and the Future We'll Face
― Headed Into the Abyss: The Story of Our Time, and the Future We'll Face
“Over time, because of all of the dynamics outlined above, and because of all the participation that citizens can have on the internet, they come to think of themselves as reporters or journalists or commentators. They come to have an inflated sense of themselves. Many web users send emails, links, likes, comments, tweets, and all sorts of other posts—especially about politics and current events—and so in a way they become the center or director of their own web experience. They pick their websites and newsfeeds, they judge and talk back to the content they see, and they interact”
― Headed Into the Abyss: The Story of Our Time, and the Future We'll Face
― Headed Into the Abyss: The Story of Our Time, and the Future We'll Face
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