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“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
“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
“The industrial eater is, in fact, one who does not know that eating is an agricultural act, who no longer knows or imagines the connections between eating and the land, and who is therefore necessarily passive and uncritical—in short, a victim. When food, in the minds of eaters, is no longer associated with farming and with the land, then the eaters are suffering a kind of cultural amnesia that is misleading and dangerous.”
― Bringing it to the Table: Writings on Farming and Food
― Bringing it to the Table: Writings on Farming and Food
“I now suspect that if we work with machines the world will seem to us to be a machine, but if we work with living creatures the world will appear to us as a living creature.”
― Bringing it to the Table: Writings on Farming and Food
― Bringing it to the Table: Writings on Farming and Food
“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
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