“Without a soundtrack, human interaction is meaningless.”

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Author, Columnist 1972

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I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.
I fear the day when technology overlaps our humanity. It will be then that the world will have permanent ensuing generations of idiots.
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Although it is a popular quote on the internet, there is no substantial evidence that Einstein actually said that. It does not appear in "The Ultimate Quotable Einstein" from Princeton University Press nor in any reliable source. " Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/19/tech-surpass/" concluded that it probably emerged as a meme on the internet as late as 2012.
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