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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Approximate author period: c. 1928 AD · modern
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- Aldous Huxley
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- Approximate author period: c. 1928 AD · modern
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