Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes About Technology
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All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.
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You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.
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The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.
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The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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