Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Stewart Brand

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Topic

Technological progress Technology Change Progress

Author

Stewart Brand

Source

The Media Lab

Language

English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

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Writer

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United States

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Citation

Brand, Stewart. The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M. I. T. Viking, 1987, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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Original Citation

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851, ch. 20.

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