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“It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button. ”
― John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar

“Ethics change with technology.”
― Larry Niven, N-Space

“If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.”
― John Twelve Hawks, The Dark River

“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”
― Sydney J. Harris

“The point is not how we use a tool, but how it uses us.”
― Nick Joaquín, Culture and History

“TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.”
― Ambrose Bierce

“First we build the tools, then they build us.”
― Marshall McLuhan