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{{g}}Stiffen your sinews if you hear this one. | {{g}}:''With every single technological advance, from the invention of writing to the invention of television, those who have failed to appreciate the non-zero-sum nature of technological evolution have prophesied doom and been proven wrong. Every time, they have made some version of the argument: this time it is different, and been proven wrong.'' | ||
::—{{author|Venkatesh Rao}}, {{br|Breaking Smart: Season One}} | |||
Stiffen your sinews if you hear this one. | |||
A laundry list of times everyone agreed it was different, but it wasn’t: | A laundry list of times everyone agreed it was different, but it wasn’t: | ||