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Thought for the day- 2/1

Posted on: Mon, 02/01/2010 - 10:09am
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The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug -- that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes. -George Orwell, novelist (1903-1950)

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Posted on: Mon, 02/01/2010 - 10:54pm in reply to Original Topic #64251TOP

Like.

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Posted on: Mon, 02/01/2010 - 11:29pm in reply to Original Topic #64253TOP

I like it, too.  Especially in thinking of the computer as the machine.  Very timely.

 

 

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Posted on: Tue, 02/02/2010 - 11:00am in reply to Original Topic #64260TOP

and what machine was he referring to back in his day?  i think he was one of the time travelers.

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Posted on: Tue, 02/02/2010 - 11:50am in reply to comment 64260 #64262TOP

TV? Radio? Telephone? Can opener?

Posted on: Tue, 02/02/2010 - 1:10pm in reply to Original Topic #64268TOP

government?

Posted on: Tue, 02/02/2010 - 1:35pm in reply to Original Topic #64273TOP

Mass media

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