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Paul Virilio

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When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution... Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.
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Politics of the Very Worst, New York: Semiotext(e), 1999, p. 89

 
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