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It’s interesting to see what old visionaries get wrong within what they get right. Vannevar Bush imagined the Memex on microfilm. Asimov imagined robotics without computers, Both imagined the internet as a sort of library+teaching machines that caused no social disruption.
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I think it was Postman who said "technological change is neither additive or subtractive, it is ecological." Old Visionaries had less of a "tech ecological" awareness, and more of library/academy/expansion of knowledge+capacity framing.
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