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The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. Andrew Brown

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. Richard P. Feynman

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. Stephen Hawking

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say. Jonathan Sacks

The internet is a great way to get on the net. Bob Dole

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past. Tim Berners-Lee

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. Thomas Sowell

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. Omar N. Bradley

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution. Scott Cook

messier 111 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 12:24 pm If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. Omar N. Bradley

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Technology continues to be morally agnostic, able to help or harm depending on how each persons decides to apply it.

We shall see if the metaverse is real, or whether it will be a re-tread of Second Life.

-me

helicon wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 2:42 pm We shall see if the metaverse is real, or whether it will be a re-tread of Second Life.

-me

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Agreed. The number of real world problems the 'metaverse' could potentially solve seems a bit short to me.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. Ambrose Bierce

A satellite has no conscience. Edward R. Murrow

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. Mitch Kapor

Mitch Kapor runs Kapor Capital in Oakland, CA

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. Max Frisch

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Jean Arp