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Norman Lear, the famous American TV producer, said: “We just may be the most-informed, yet least self-aware people in history.”
“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
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“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
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“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
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
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