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" So many people for so many years have promoted technology as the answer to everything. The economy wasn't growing: technology. Poor people: technology. Illness: technology. As if, somehow, technology in and of itself would be a solution. Yet machine values are not always human values. "

Ellen Ullman

Growing

Values

Technology

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Detail

Knowledge

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Our

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