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		sanatgersappa on May 10, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tech’s Two Philosophies “Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. ” Quite sure that automation is closer to this than bicycling.

sah2ed on May 10, 2018 [–]

That's an especially apt quote from 1911 by Alfred North Whitehead.

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead

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