“Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
“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.”
― The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
― The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
“In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”
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