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 ==== Summa Technologiae ====
-<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.
+--[[Stanislaw Lem]] </blockquote>
   * [[wp>Summa_Technologiae]]
   * http://english.lem.pl/works/essays/summa-technologiae/107-lems-opinion
+  * http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/ive-seen-gardens-compared-which-would-be-wilderness