...he [Thamus] worries that wisdom will become indistinguishable from mere knowledge. This judgment we must take to heart, for it is a certainty that radical technologies create new definitions of old terms and that this process takes place without our being fully conscious of it...
...technology imperiously commandeers our most important terminology. It redefines "freedom", "truth", "intelligence", "fact", "wisdom", "memory", "history" - all the words we live by. And it does not pause to tell us. And we do not pause to ask.
Technopoly, p8-9
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