We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way thatโs better.
John Brunnerto travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other
John BrunnerWhat in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?
John BrunnerIt's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it were on your side and not theirs.
John BrunnerExtremism. It is an almost infallible sign โ a kind of death-rattle โ when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.
John Brunner