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Civilization may be becoming hyper-fragile through dependence on technologies that are not as reliable as they should be
Drawn from what Daniel Dennett said
What Daniel Dennett actually said
- Daniel Dennett American philosopher of mind and cognitive scientist (1942 to 2024)
I am quite concerned that we're becoming hyper-fragile as a civilization, and we're becoming so dependent on technologies that are not as reliable as they should be, that have so many conditions that have to be met for them to work, that we may specialize ourselves into some very serious jams.
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↗The Normal Well-Tempered Mind (Edge)edge.org
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