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"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."

— Aldous Huxley

Technological Progress Has Merely Provided Us

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

— Aldous Huxley
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Published in Ends and Means (1937), a philosophical work examining the relationship between social ideals and the methods used to pursue them, this line captures Huxley's ambivalence about industrial modernity. He argued that technological acceleration had outpaced moral and psychological development, leaving humanity with ever-more-powerful tools in the service of ever-more-destructive ends.

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Ends and Means, 1937

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