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NETFUTURE 8Talbott 9

 

[W]e dare not think that, just because we can do good things with technology, it therefore threatens no radical and unconsidered change.... What looks like freedom in the short term may constrain us in the long term. Much the same applies to computers. We have to look beyond the immediate activities we are inclined to praise or curse. We have to grasp the underlying forces -- human as well as technological -- through which society is being reshaped.
-- Stephen L. Talbott "The Machine's Hidden Agenda." NETFUTURE Issue #3 (January 4, 1996).
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