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If you believe that science and technology have given us the highest standard of living in history or that they have trapped us inside of a machine we can't escape from, we live in a situation we inherited, as a result of a long and complex series of events through history.

— James Burke Connections (1979)

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Above all, at some point, everybody is involved in the business of change, not just the so-called "great men."

Connections (1979)

Never before have so many people understood so little about so much.

Connections (1979)

And as it spreads, will it spread the ability to use machines, as we do, without understanding them?

Connections (1979)

The trouble is, that's not easy when you have been taught as I was, for example, that things in the past happened in straight-forward lines.

Connections (1979)

Some things, this ritual says, must be permanent.

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