I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth—rocks!
Atari is a very sad story.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
The NeXT purchase is too little too late. Apple is already dead.
If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.
Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
Science and technology have been embarrassed by two world wars, many smaller ones, and the spread of weapons that could destroy humanity. As a result, there is some loss of confidence in the great achievements of technology.
We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us.
If mankind is to escape its programmed self-extinction the God who saves us will not descend from the machine: he will rise up again in the human soul.
I believe that all technological societies tend to self-destruct. The reason is that the very things that make us a successful technological society, such as our curiosity, our ambition and determination, will also cause us to fall.
Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.
