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The evil of technology was not technology itself, lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability.
-David McCullough
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The Evil Of Technology Was Not Technology

David McCullough
The evil of technology was not technology itself, lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability.
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