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==== Summa Technologiae ==== | ==== Summa Technologiae ==== |
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<blockquote>The slogan of this work was "to catch up and outrun Nature". I even considered a subtitle "plagiarisms and creations"... Summa technologiae written in 1963 was not a novel, but a collection of diverse texts- not necessarily prophecies. The landscapes of the future enclosed in Summa can be compared to a guide for mountain climbing in the Alps. The author of the guide does not claim that every climber must reach all peaks - just as a person in a restaurant is not required to order all dishes. I did not write about what would happen but about what could happen, since I obviously had no influence on future development of technology.</blockquote> | <blockquote>The slogan of this work was "to catch up and outrun Nature". I even considered a subtitle "plagiarisms and creations"... Summa technologiae written in 1963 was not a novel, but a collection of diverse texts- not necessarily prophecies. The landscapes of the future enclosed in Summa can be compared to a guide for mountain climbing in the Alps. The author of the guide does not claim that every climber must reach all peaks - just as a person in a restaurant is not required to order all dishes. I did not write about what would happen but about what could happen, since I obviously had no influence on future development of technology. |
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| --[[Stanislaw Lem]] </blockquote> |
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* [[wp>Summa_Technologiae]] | * [[wp>Summa_Technologiae]] |
* http://english.lem.pl/works/essays/summa-technologiae/107-lems-opinion | * http://english.lem.pl/works/essays/summa-technologiae/107-lems-opinion |