“The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.”
“The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.”
Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)
Source: Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns and Lock-in by Historical Events, (1989), p. 116
April 1, 2001, First Arab Conference on Arabizing the Internet, Amman, Jordan.
“Unforeseen technological inventions can completely upset the most careful predictions.”
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)
Source: Game-Changing Strategies, 2013, p. 67
Politics of the Very Worst, New York: Semiotext(e), 1999, p. 89
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 98
