Technological progress · Skopia

Quotes

27

That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.

1969

★ 9.5

When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do this will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.

1926

★ 6.0

Autobiography and memoir

All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres.

The Education of Henry Adams · 1907

★ 5.4

Soon shall thy arm, unconquere'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying-chariot through the fields of air.

The Botanic Garden · 1791

★ 5.1

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Books

2

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

1870★ 6.5

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

1968★ 6.4