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Technology Quotes by Richard Powers
- In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.
- My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.
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