[−]SarikayaKomzin · 2026-10-11 Sun 01:42 UTC ·
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> No one confessed the Machine was out of hand. Year by year it was served with increased efficiency and decreased intelligence. The better a man knew his own duties upon it, the less he understood the duties of his neighbor, and in all the world there was not one who understood the monster as a whole. Those master brains had perished.
- E.M. Forster, _The Machine Stops_
Abstraction is terrific and terrifying. It is the shoulders of giants we build upon, but when it begins to scale nonlinearly I fear it endangers us as much as enraptures us.
- E.M. Forster, _The Machine Stops_
Abstraction is terrific and terrifying. It is the shoulders of giants we build upon, but when it begins to scale nonlinearly I fear it endangers us as much as enraptures us.