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G_j

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4. Technology can all too easily be abused by barbarians of any tongue or of any age.

Reply to Junkdrawer (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 28, 2014, 11:38 AM

Feb 2014

Herodotus already understood, over two millennia ago, a lesson we struggle with in modern times: that technology, neutral in itself, provides tools. Xerxes' men could build a great bridge. But Xerxes forgot what it was to be a man.

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