“While no politician or political system can ever afford to yield understandably and enthusiastically to their adversaries and opposers, all politicians can and will yield enthusiastically to the computers safe flight-controlling capabilities in bringing all of humanity in for a happy landing.”

—  Buckminster Fuller

1960s, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)

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