"This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, year 1995

  • RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPM
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    1 year ago

    “We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, year 1995

    Sooner or later, 1995 … Social media cloud computing machines ate my nation / ate my nation’s face …

    “This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while” … 1995, for a while, say 2025?