Claims / C-1WKH86RTMX
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No one steers a new technology's direction: it enters each society through the story already running there and is remade by that story before it remakes it.
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Everywhere it went, the machine was entering a story already in progress.
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The rise of the machine was not a product of human intention.
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No one could have impeded its advance. No one could determine its direction, and no one could control its social impact.
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It might drastically change the worldview it was entering once it was part of the picture, but first, it had to become part of the picture.
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No one can stop technology or determine its impact, but at the same time, no force can erase social narratives or mitigate their influence.
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