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“People were expensive; the way to display, or to enjoy, great wealth was to build an environment that could only have been wrought, and could only be sustained from one hour to the next, by unceasing human effort.”
― Termination Shock
― Termination Shock
“Work expands to fill the time available to it, and digital technologies gradually and efficiently carved more and more time out of our nonwork lives.”
― Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home
― Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home
“Maybe Socrates would rather be right than popular, but most of us prefer to maintain our good standing with our tribe, a reasonable call when one considers that Socrates was executed by his fellow citizens.”
― The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
― The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
“Like every other state-of-the-art conference room AV system in the history of the world, it failed to work on the first go and so it was necessary to summon someone who understood how it worked; and like all such persons he could not be found.”
― Termination Shock
― Termination Shock
“27 If we go in for quackery or conspiracy theories, that is often because the personal cost of believing is low and the personal reward of believing is high. Believing that 9/11 was a government plot or that Barack Obama was not born in America does us no personal harm, but it can help us feel enmeshed in a special group of insiders with privileged information. Experiments show that a good way to help people think more rigorously and accurately is to pay them to get the right answer; when they have skin in the game, the personal cost of being wrong goes up.”
― The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
― The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
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