Technological progress

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That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.

Neil Armstrong

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Armstrong, Neil. Spoken on the moon. 20 July 1969.

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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 25.

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Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 25.

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Darwin, Erasmus. The Botanic Garden. London: Joseph Johnson, 1791, pt. 1.

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Ellsworth, Henry L. "Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year." U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1843.

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Cather, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop. Alfred A. Knopf, 1927, bk. 9, ch. 6.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "The Man Who Was a Fool." Detroit Council of Churches' Noon Lenten Services. 6 Mar. 1961, Detroit, MI, USA.

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Phillips, Wendell. Speech in Boston. Massachusetts Antislavery Society meeting. 28 Jan. 1852, The Melodeon, Boston, MA, USA.

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

The Great Society created by steam and electricity may be a society, but it is no community.

John Dewey

The Public and its Problems

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Dewey, John. The Public and Its Problems. H. Holt and Company, 1927, ch. 3.

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Lec, Stanislaw. Unkempt Thoughts, translated by Jacek Galazka. St. Martin's Press, 1962. Originally published as Myśli nieuczesane [Uncombed Thoughts]. Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1957.

When a man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

Guillaume Apollinaire

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Apollinaire, Guillaume. Les mamelles de Tirésias [The Breasts of Tiresias]. 1917, Paris, France.

Only a free society... Can produce the technology that makes tyranny possible.

John Keith Laumer

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Laumer, John Keith. "Test to Destruction." Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison. Doubleday, 1967.

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Sagan, Carl. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. Random House, 1994.

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Ellis, Havelock. Impressions and Comments. Constable & Company, 1914.

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Jurassic Park. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment, 1993.

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Wells, H. G. "The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia." Harper's Magazine, Apr. 1937.

I have seen the future; and it works.

Lincoln Steffens

Following a visit to the Soviet Union in 1919.

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Steffens, Lincoln. The Letters of Lincoln Steffens. Vol. 1, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938. Originally a letter to Marie Howe, 3 Apr. 1919.

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Babbage, Charles. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. London: Charles Knight, 1832, ch. 29.

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Babbage, Charles. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. Cambridge University Press, 2010, ch. 29.