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“I do think that it is very important not to forget that society is not only depending on technologies and the knowledge which feeds into new technologies but that society is indeed depending on a proper continuation, reconstruction and criticism of its own traditions. Because these traditions are the ones who gives us a certain orientation of how to understand men in society, men in the world.”
—Jürgen Habermas

Remember, growth is only possible as a product of history. Without memory, innovation is merely novelty. History gives growth a direction. But a memory is never perfect. Every memory is a degraded or composite image of a previous moment or event. That’s what makes us aware of its quality as a past and not a present. It means that every memory is new, a partial construct different from its source, and, as such, a potential for growth itself.
—Bruce Mau

“In the late 8Os when we started playing with computers and the internet started appearing, there was such a mood of a kind of irrational idealism about that. A lot of people was saying: ‘we don’t need politics anymore.’ ‘We don’t do politics.’ Politics was sort of uncool because technology was going to make it all irrelevant. […] ‘What we needed it was management, not politics.’ So it was an idea that ideology would evaporate.

And that meant that a lot of the most interesting minds weren’t in politics. It left a huge vacuum which was filled by very much less interesting minds and it became the seedbed for what we see now.”
—Brian Eno

“Laissez-faire is fine, until what you are ‘lessing,’ someone else is ‘fairing.’”