Can We Survive Technology? — John von Neumann (1955)
"Literary and figuratively, we are running out of room"
“The great globe itself is in a rapidly maturing crisis—a crisis attributable to the fact that the environment in which technological progress must occur has become both undersized and underorganized.”
By 1955 mathematician John von Neumann (1903-57) had been diagnosed wit…
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