“Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic.”
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
“Being on the "Hold" is the technological equivalent of purgatory.”
— Michael Crichton, book A Case of Need
A Case of Need (1968)
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“Technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us.”
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Abe of Japan at Hiroshima Peace Memorial at Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, Japan (May 27, 2016) https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/27/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-abe-japan-hiroshima-peace <br class="br">2016 <br class="br">Context: There are many sites around the world that chronicle this war -- memorials that tell stories of courage and heroism; graves and empty camps that echo of unspeakable depravity. Yet in the image of a mushroom cloud that rose into these skies, we are most starkly reminded of humanity’s core contradiction; how the very spark that marks us as a species -- our thoughts, our imagination, our language, our tool-making, our ability to set ourselves apart from nature and bend it to our will -- those very things also give us the capacity for unmatched destruction. [... ] Science allows us to communicate across the seas and fly above the clouds; to cure disease and understand the cosmos. But those same discoveries can be turned into ever-more efficient killing machines. The wars of the modern age teach this truth. Hiroshima teaches this truth. Technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us. The scientific revolution that led to the splitting of an atom requires a moral revolution, as well.
Rush Limbaugh (1951) U.S. radio talk show host, Commentator, author, and television personality
Democrats Walk Off Job in Loyalty to Their Paymasters Over Voters
The Rush Limbaugh Show
2011-02-22
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_022211/content/01125108.guest.html
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D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter
Sons and Lovers - Edited out of the 1913 edition, restored in 1992
“No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.”
C.G. Jung book Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933), p. 209
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903) British politician
Source: 'Parliamentary Reform', Quarterly Review, 117, 1865, p. 550
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 260
David W. Oxtoby (1951) President of Pomona college
Principles of Modern Chemistry (7th ed., 2012), Ch. 1 : The Atom in Modern Chemistry
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Context: The individual will reach total consciousness as a social being, which is equivalent to the full realization as a human creature, once the chains of alienation are broken. This will be translated concretely into the reconquering of one's true nature through liberated labor, and the expression of one's own human condition through culture and art.