"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-Arthur C. Clarke
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"Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.“
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"I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived."
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