The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.” – Marshall McLuhan
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The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.” – Marshall McLuhan
When people realise how fast we are rushing towards the great unknown, and that they cannot count even on death to shield them from it, their reaction is to hope that somebody will hit the brakes and slow us down. But we cannot hit the brakes, for several reasons.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
A human being is part of the whole, called by us ‘universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest
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At the subatomic level, the world turned out to be very far from Newtonian, with uncertainty built into the very fabric of matter.
Matt Ridley • The Evolution of Everything
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. —Albert Allen Bartlett, physicist
John Vaillant • Fire Weather
The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction, its own madness.