All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until
you're there.
-Michael Crichton Jurassic Park
In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.
-Michael Crichton Jurassic Park
Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too
uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they
are told--and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. ... We are
stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a
self-congratulatory delusion.
-- Michael Crichton
The Lost World