A Bad Carver
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- The more powerful the technology, the more unpredictable its effects will be. A technological advance in the sense of a de-condensation is by its nature something that does not fit in the existing order. The world will need to reshape itself to fit. Technology is a bad carver, not in the sense that it is bad, but in the sense of Socrates: First, the taking in of scattered particulars under one Idea, so that everyone understands what is being talked about β¦ Second, the separation of the Idea into parts, by dividing it at the joints, as nature directs, not breaking any limb in half as a bad carver might.β
- The most powerful technological advances break limbs in half. They cut up the world in an entirely new way, inconceivable in the previous order.