“Technology is stuff that doesn’t work yet.”

— Bran Ferren

Quoted by Douglas Adams, in How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet, September 8, 2013 http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/19990901-00-a.html,

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American technologist 1953

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