What Kurt Vonnegut said some time back….

I was reading some of the articles linked to the post No news and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. at Moon Jungle’s blog.

This was one snippet from one of the articles that had me in splits,

Do you know what a Luddite is? That’s a person who doesn’t like newfangled contraptions. Contraptions like nuclear submarines armed with Poseidon missiles that have H-bombs in their warheads, and like computers that cheat you out of becoming. Bill Gates says, “Wait till you can see what your computer can become.” But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work — not the damn fool computer.

The complete article can be found here

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