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The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future
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home than elsewhere, increasing efficiency of communication and of controlling human behavior can, instead of liberating us into the air like birds, fix us to the ground like toadstools. All information will come in by super-realistic television and other electronic devices as yet in the planning stage or barely imagined. In one way this will
... See moreAlan Watts • The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
In the 1970 book Future Shock, American futurist Alvin Toffler and his wife Adelaide Farrell argued that the rapid shift into a “super-industrial society” happened so quickly we’ve been unable to adapt. The breakneck pace of technological change leaves people overwhelmed with “shattering stress and disorientation”. Popularising the term... See more
Passive Attack
That one is the fact that as technology and information play a bigger role in business and our lives, labor becomes less necessary
Howard Marks • Howard Marks Memo - The Winds of Change
findings were astonishing. More information was generated in 2001 than in all the previous existence of our species