"These are the days of lasers in..." - Quote by Paul Simon
These are the days of lasers in the jungle, staccato signals of constant information.
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“Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.”
“Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror”
“This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath. It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.”
More on Information
“Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.”
“Knowledge is power, which is why people who had it in the past often tried to make a secret of it. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not from hiding it.”
“Any person that don't read at least one well-written country newspaper is not truly informed.”