“A society of large tools cannot be democratic, egalitarian, socialistic, humane, and just. It must be hierarchical, exploitative, bureaucratic, and authoritarian. If the day comes when all of humanity’s wants can be supplied by a few giant tools, the people who tend them will rule the world.”
John Holt Planet Economics section of 1974’s Whole Earth Epilog, as quoted by WIRED 2018.
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