Hal Abelson Quotes on Technology
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In the Middle Ages people built cathedrals, where the whole town would get together and make a thing that's greater than any individual person could do and the society would kind of revel in that. We don't do that as much anymore, but in a sense this is kind of like building a cathedral.
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'What's important is not just to develop the technology; it's to develop the processes.'
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'It is not that there is some magic technology. It is what are you going to do with it?'
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Architects of the Information Society (1999) - edited by with Simson L. Garfinkel