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The top names on this page are sociologists and engineers, among them Charles Perrow, W. Brian Arthur and Tim Berners-Lee, with the novelist John Brunner. Aldous Huxley, in Ends and Means (1937), says technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Freeman Dyson, in Infinite in All Directions (1988), says the technologies with the deepest effects on human life are usually simple. Eric Hoffer, in 1973, wondered about a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs.

The one flagged entry is “Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology,” credited to Larry Niven and marked misattributed.

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