Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

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Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

In the original Norwegian

Også om teknikken gjelder det at den er en nyttig tjener, men en farlig herre.

Christian Louis Lange

1921

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Downsides of technology Technology

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Nobel Prize Lecture Speech

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1921

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Christian Louis Lange

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Lange, Christian. Nobel Lecture. Nobel Peace Prize cermony. 13 Dec. 1921, Norwegian Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway.

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