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Doctors of the future:
The Little Black Bag by C. M. Kornbluth (1950)
https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/kornbluth-littleblack/kornbluth-littleblack-00-h.html
The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster
First published in the Oxford and Cambridge Review, November 1909
https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/Machine_stops.pdf
Idiocracy, as described in 1951:
The Marching Morons by C. M. Kornbluth
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51233/51233-h/51233-h.htm
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1952)
“The main business of humanity is to do a good job of being human beings,” said Paul, “not to serve as appendages to machines, institutions, and systems.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
“Those who live by electronics, die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
“If it weren’t for the people, the god-damn people’ said Finnerty, ‘always getting tangled up in the machinery. If it weren’t for them, the world would be an engineer’s paradise.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1005005-player-piano?page=1
We are not human resources for corporate entities. Corporate entities are resources for humans:
Not under the system called Muh Capitalism, bub.
Failure is just another step towards success unless you die before you succeed.
“‘when you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this…you haven’t.”
It was about that time Edison decided to steal the work of Nikola Tesla…enriching himself by destroying a greater mind than his own.
FUCK EDISON!
“There’s no such thing as a good idea I wouldn’t steal and claim as my own” – Edison
Actually, wasn’t Edison a thief? Stealing inventions from his peers and those who actually did the work and invented things, like Tesla. While the actual inventor was vilified.
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