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Norman Lear, the famous American TV producer, said: “We just may be the most-informed, yet least self-aware people in history.”
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
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“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
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“Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.”
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“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
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“The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.”
― The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
― The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
Gerd’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Gerd’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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679 books
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975 books
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156 books
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400 books
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467 books
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188 friends
110 books
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