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It feels like between ~1920 and today, science went from exciting spectator sport where all educated people paid attention to big philosophical debates, to blackbox source of tech goodies Things like the Einstein-Bergson debate probably couldn’t happen today. We have TED instead
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"When a machine runs efficiently, when a matter of fact is settled, one need focus only on its inputs and outputs and not on its internal complexity. Thus, paradoxically, the more science and technology succeed, the more opaque and obscure they become" OR from Gramophone to iPod
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