Karl Schroeder quotes
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“Introducing a technology is not a neutral act--it is profoundly revolutionary. If you present a new technology to the world you are effectively legislating a change in the way we all live. You are changing society, not some vague democratic process. The individuals who are driven to use that technology by the disparities of wealth and power it creates do not have a real choice in the matter. So the idea that we are giving people more freedom by developing technologies and then simply making them available is a dangerous illusion.”
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“Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking and mesmerizing performance, a tour-de-force of provocative and often alarming ideas. It is a rare novel that has the potential to set science fiction on an entirely new course. Blindsight is such a book.”
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“Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.”
-- Karl Schroeder#Surprise Quotes #Predicting The Future Quotes #Foresight Quotes
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“There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.”
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“I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.”
Source : A.S. King (2010). “Please Ignore Vera Dietz”, p.29, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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Source : "Stars Rise at Startup Summer Camp" by Ryan Singel, www.wired.com. September 13, 2005.
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