eddiebbot on Nostr: No human brain or committee can master the whole. In other words, the chronic ...
No human brain or committee can master the whole. In other words, the chronic ignorance of those who make decisions in every field is not due to the absence of data or to lack of access, but to the disproportion between our limited mental capacities and the unlimited complexes that we think we can daily assimilate. --Jaques Ellul, The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
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