“If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment.”

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 15

Introduction, p. 13
The Other Side Of The Coin (2008)

Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.29

This is derived from the third of Arthur C. Clarke&#x27;s three laws : &quot;Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.&quot; There are other variants which had inverted this including one known as Gehm&#x27;s corollary http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/cyc/l/law.htm, published several years earlier : &quot;Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.&quot; The earliest variant seems to be &quot;Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.&quot; It has been called &quot;Niven&#x27;s Law&quot; and attributed to Larry Niven by some, and to Terry Pratchett by others, but without any citation of an original source in either case — the earliest occurrence yet located is an anonymous one in Keystone Folklore (1984) by the Pennsylvania Folklore Society. <br class="br">Foundation&#x27;s Fear (1997)

Anonymous saying, this is an inversion of the third of Arthur C. Clarke's three laws : "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." It has been attributed to Niven, and even called "Niven's Law" by some, and to Terry Pratchett by others, but without any citation of an original source in either case, and the earliest occurrence yet located is in Keystone Folklore (1984) by the Pennsylvania Folklore Society.
Misattributed

Source: Pushing Ice (2005), Chapter 30 (p. 435)

He Who Shapes (1965)

On Milton (1825)