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"...a few centuries of coherent humanist thought, set against a million odd years of evolved killer ape tendency. No-one's going to give you very good odds on humanism, are they?"
- Richard Morgan
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| Planetary Computer Network | ||
| A global data net. |
| When someone, as a domineering personality, fights for power, he surely knows what he is doing; he is acting with intention and according to a plan, ethical or not, that makes sense and has a purpose, which we might even be able to discern. But if a gradual accretion of informatic machines and memory banks creates a governmental, continental, and eventually planetary computer network, which is the direction of the current development, the system composed of people and the said network may acquire a dynamic trajectory that does not coincide with the interests of our civilization. More specifically, the system might begin to drift... |
| Technovelgy from Dialogues,
by Stanislaw Lem. Published by Not Known in 1957 Additional resources -
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