¶ Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment (1)
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Q. “How do we cope with the acquisitive and competitive factors in our society to avoid the misuse of resources… and in a way that our artifacts must be responsive to our values?”
RBF: "I don’t accept any must-be-so about anything. There are six moves with every turn of the play. We are designed to make mistakes. Parents don’t want children to get in trouble with the system. We punish everybody for making mistakes. I exult in all the bad news of the mistakes being made because that’s how we get something done about it.
"Universe is nothing but technology. You can pick up a stone and throw it at someone’s head–a horrible mistake, killing explicitly… but it’s not the fault of technology. Using the faculties of Universe is what it’s all about.
“We are not going to get there by talk… or by electing somebody over here. We are going to get there by knowledge and competence.”
