Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction are we moving. If there is technological advance without social advance, there is almost automatically an increase in human misery, in impoverishment. Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy. Your education begins when what is called your education ends. Anyone learning without thought is lost, anyone thinking but not learning is in peril. What you allow in at the beginning of a new learning cycle affects the final fruit.