Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — 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 BrunnerWhat in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?
John BrunnerWe fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.
John Brunner