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“Naturally, bureaucrats can be expected to embrace a technology that helps to create the illusion that decisions are not under their control. Because of its seeming intelligence and impartiality, a computer has an almost magical tendency to direct attention away from the people in charge of bureaucratic functions and toward itself, as if the computer were the true source of authority. A bureaucrat armed with a computer is the unacknowledged legislator of our age, and a terrible burden to bear.”
― Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
― Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
“As a society of unbelief, Western culture is devoid of a sense of journey, of adventure, because it lacks belief in much more than the cultivation of an ever-shrinking horizon of self-preservation and and self-expression.”
― Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony
― Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony
“One characteristic of those who live in a Technopoly is that they are largely unaware of both the origins and the effects of their technologies.”
― Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
― Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
“We must keep in mind the story of the statistician who drowned while trying to wade across a river with an average depth of four feet.”
― Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
― Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
“In the American Technopoly, public opinion is a yes or no answer to an unexamined question.”
― Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
― Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
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