"Technological fixes are not always undesirable or inadequate, but there is a danger that what is addressed is not the real problem but the problem in as far as it is amendable to technical solutions."

Engineering and the Problem of Moral Overload

"If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality."

Stephen Hawking, 2015 Reddit AMA

Lost Einsteins: The US may have missed out on millions of inventors

You've Got Luddites All Wrong

"Technological fixes are not always undesirable or inadequate, but there is a danger that what is addressed is not the real problem but the problem in as far as it is amendable to technical solutions."

Engineering and the Problem of Moral Overload

"If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality."

Stephen Hawking, 2015 Reddit AMA

Lost Einsteins: The US may have missed out on millions of inventors

You've Got Luddites All Wrong

r/fuckcars

We can build better infrastructure specifically adapted to different locations everywhere, especially where there's high population density. Give the streets back to people, build more bikeways and train tracks.

But would that be the best way to use that money and would that funding be consistently reliable?

If you wanted to expand the range to the equivalent of what a mobile phone tower would cover, how many satellite receivers would be necessary? Would the price point be more, less, or comparable to a mobile phone tower with that number of receivers?

Price points? Affordability? Funding and sustainability?

I have an inkling this will be short-lived due to problems similar to those faced by OLPC.

"Technological fixes are not always undesirable or inadequate, but there is a danger that what is addressed is not the real problem but the problem in as far as it is amendable to technical solutions."

Engineering and the Problem of Moral Overload

"If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality." Stephen Hawking, 2015 Reddit AMA

“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.” ― Buckminster Fuller

"...This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.

I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals..." Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?

Lost Einsteins: The US may have missed out on millions of inventors

If I were a hot dog, I know I would

Correction: nice quotes from observant Russians

Here are a few more:

“A nation that roams Europe and is looking for something to destroy, to simply dust everything.” – F. M. Dostoevsky

"We are not a people, but cattle, rats, wild hordes of villains and murderers.” – Mikhail Bulgakov

"The most important sign of victory for the Russian people is their cruelty full of sadism.” – Maxim Gorky

"Ah, how hard it is to live in Russia, in this place full of the stench of physical and moral deception, a place of wickedness, lies and wickedness.” – Sergei Aksakov

"The Russian is the biggest and most naughty liar in the world.” – Ivan S. Turgenev

"A people who hate freedom, worship slavery, love chains on their hands and feet, defiled physically and morally… ready at any time to defile everything and everywhere.” – Ivan C. Shmeliov