February 01 2010

“The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug — that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes.”

It would have been great if we realized this simple truth before wasting our time in every decade blaming the latest “addictive” gadget/tool/machine that has become popular in the public imagination.

—George Orwell, novelist (1903-1950)
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