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Quasimango
Mar 10, 2011

God damn you.

fspades posted:

Thanks for your observation that a celebrated writer and intellectual of 20th century was not toeing the line with the goonsensus of technological optimism, OP.

It's almost as if he lived in an age when many of the greatest scientists were spending their time helping to construct weapons that would wipe out humanity. I can't imagine why he was so skeptical of the Grand New Technological Future.

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