Langdon Winner Quotes

• In the technical realm, we repeatedly enter into a series of social contracts, the terms of which are revealed only after the signing.

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  Langdon Winner (2010). “The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

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• Who says that actors are cattle? Show me a cow who can earn a million dollars a film.

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• I don't go to restaurants, I go to tables.

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• Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.

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  Langdon Winner (2010). “The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology”, p.6, University of Chicago Press

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• The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album was released.. . . . At the time I happened to be driving across country on Interstate 80. In each city where I stopped for gas or food — Laramie, Ogallala, Moline, South Bend — the melodies wafted in from some far-off transistor radio or portable hi-fi. It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever heard. For a brief while the irreparable fragmented consciousness of the West was unified, at least in the minds of the young.

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