… at the Hay Festival:
“In a global village there will be global village idiots. And with this power, just one could be too many,” he said. These might not be fundamentalists, but those with the mentality of a computer virus designer or arsonist, he added. “Even a single person will have the capacity to cause massive disruption through error or through terror. We are kidding ourselves if we think that technical education leads to balanced rationality.”
Terror or error: is humanity on the eve of destruction? (Guardian)
Also: Doom, destruction and weirdos: another day at Hay (Culture Vulture)
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