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Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.

Approximate author period: c. 1984 AD · modern

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Jonathan Sacks
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Approximate author period: c. 1984 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks: life dates 1948 to 2020. Wikidata Q336766, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q336766 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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