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"The machines themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines." - God Emperor of Dune, Frank Herbert (a prescient book on soci
by Radim 9y ago
"The machines themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines."
- God Emperor of Dune, Frank Herbert (a prescient book on social feedback loops, my favourite in the series)
- thinkfurther 9y ago> Our main way of relating ourselves to others is like things relate themselves to things on the market. We want to exchange our own personality, or as one says sometimes, our "personality package", for something. -- Erich Fromm ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu-7UDT0Xe4&t=1m34s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu-7UDT0Xe4&t=1m34s ) > The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers. -- Konrad Zuse And when Picasso said that computers are useless because they only provide answers, was he just being witty, or pointing at an abyss, knowingly or not?