“It was a hard thing to contemplate, even harder to accept, the inevitable tide of technological progress, which even as it created careers for some, also destroyed careers for others.”

— K. A. Bedford

Source: Paradox Resolution (2012), Chapter 5 (pp. 34-35)

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