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    Several quotes highlight how technology has advanced faster than humanity's ability to handle it responsibly. Thomas Watson underestimated future computing needs in 1943. Bill Gates said 640KB of memory should suffice in 1981. Einstein noted that technology exceeds our spiritual development and we have guided missiles but misguided men. He also used the metaphor of a long cat to describe how wireless communication works without physical connections like wires.

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    Several quotes highlight how technology has advanced faster than humanity's ability to handle it responsibly. Thomas Watson underestimated future computing needs in 1943. Bill Gates said 640KB of memory should suffice in 1981. Einstein noted that technology exceeds our spiritual development and we have guided missiles but misguided men. He also used the metaphor of a long cat to describe how wireless communication works without physical connections like wires.

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    Several quotes highlight how technology has advanced faster than humanity's ability to handle it responsibly. Thomas Watson underestimated future computing needs in 1943. Bill Gates said 640KB of memory should suffice in 1981. Einstein noted that technology exceeds our spiritual development and we have guided missiles but misguided men. He also used the metaphor of a long cat to describe how wireless communication works without physical connections like wires.

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    Computers and TechnologyI think theres

    a world market for maybe five computers. Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943. 640K ou ht to be enou h for anybody. Bill Gates 1981

    !ne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. "o machine can do the work of one e#traordinary man. Elbert Green Hubbar

    Ima ine a school with children that can read or write$ but with teachers who cannot$ and you have a metaphor of the Information % e in which we live. !eter Co"hrane

    &It is appallin ly obvious that our technolo y e#ceeds our humanity.& #lbert Einstein

    &!ur scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. 'e have uided missiles and mis uided men.& $r. Martin %uther &in' (r.

    &(ou see$ wire tele raph is a kind of a very$ very lon cat. (ou pull his tail in "ew (ork and his head is meowin in )os %n eles. *o you understand this+ %nd radio operates e#actly the same way, you send si nals here$ they receive them there. -he only difference is that there is no cat.& #lbert Einstein )*hen as+e to es"ribe ra io,

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