"The best we can hope for the role of progress in a universe running downhill as a whole is that the vision of our attempts to progress in the face of overwhelming necessity may have the purging terror of Greek tragedy. Yet we live in an age not over-receptive to tragedy."

Wiener, Norbert. The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society. London: Free Association, 1989. 41. Print.

First published in 1950.

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