Quarry knew in his heart that this was true. He had allowed technology to enfeeble him. He was like some lazy driver who had become entirely reliant on parking sensors and satellite navigation to get him around town.

“Fear is historically the strongest emotion in economics. Remember FDR in the Great Depression? It’s the most famous quote in financial history: ‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.’ In fact fear is probably the strongest human emotion, period. Whoever woke at four in the morning because they were feeling happy?

asperity

Hardly any faculty is more important for the intellectual progress of man than ATTENTION. Animals clearly manifest this power, as when a cat watches by a hole and prepares to spring on its prey. —CHARLES DARWIN, The Descent of Man (1871)

he felt it was poisoning him inch by inch, just like Marie Curie had been killed by radiation.

In fact, the reverse is happening. We have plenty of spare, unintelligent human capacity to do those simple, menial jobs, often for very long hours and poor pay. Instead, the humans that computers are replacing are members of the educated classes: translators, medical technicians, legal clerks, accountants, financial traders.

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow. —MARY SHELLEY, Frankenstein (1818)

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. —RICHARD DAWKINS, The Selfish Gene (1976)

THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE WILL HAVE NO WORKERS THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE WILL HAVE NO MANAGERS THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE WILL BE A DIGITAL ENTITY THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE WILL BE ALIVE