Walden Technology and Modernization Quotes Page 1
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| Quote #1 [Man] has no time to be anything but a machine. (Economy.6) |
Technology has a way of dehumanizing the people who use it. Thoreau would probably say that nature, on the other hand, makes us more human.
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What would Thoreau have made of the pretty toys we call iPhones?
| Quote #3 Men think that it is essential that the Nation have commerce, and export ice, and talk through a telegraph, and ride thirty miles an hour, without a doubt, whether they do or not; but whether we should live like baboons or like men, is a little uncertain. (Where I Lived.17) |
Thoreau questions our priorities. Should we really be spending our lives trying to ride a zippy at thirty miles an hour, or should we instead turn to the real tough questions about life?
