"This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, year 1995

  • Stovetop@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    “This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while” … 1995, for a while, say 2025?

    Long enough that he didn’t live to see it happen, unfortunately. Or, for his sake, perhaps mercifully.