{"quotes":[{"text":"I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories, no unions, no heroism, no absolutes, no heartbeat. That world has rigor mortis.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["absolutes","beliefs","convictions","dead-world","heartbeat","individualism","man","meaninglessness","open-mindedness","passivity","rigor-mortis","robot-world","unions","world","zealot"],"id":154863,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Casting a curious gaze down on planet Earth, extra-terrestrial beings could well be forgiven for assuming that we humans are programmed in every move we make, by a palm-sized, oblong, slab of glass. More perplexing than that, who on earth could convince them otherwise ?","author":"Alex Morritt","tags":["artificial-intelligence","artificial-life","artificiality","assume","assumed","assumption","assumptions","assumptions","automaton","backward-step","backwards","big-brother","brain","brain-drain","brainwashed","brainwashed-generation","brainwashed-society","brainwashing","cell-phone","cell-phones","cellphones","contrary","conviction","convince","convinced","convinced-that-we-re-living","convincing","convincing-ability","convincing-others","curiosity","curiosity","curious","deskilled","despair","despair","device","device-set-up","device-sync","devices","dumb-people","dumbing-down","dumbness","earth","earth-citizen","earth","earthlings","earthly-possessions","earthly-task","earthly-things","evolution","evolutionary-process","extraterrestrial-life","extraterrestrials","fake-friends","fake-people","forgive","forgiveness","future-prediction","future","futuristic","galactic","galaxies","galaxy","glass","glass-half-full","glass-slab","global-warning","globalisation","globalization","governed","homo-sapiens","homogeneity","homogenous","human-condition","human-nature","human-regression","human-revolution","human-weakness","humanity","humanity-and-society","humanoid","humans","humor","humor","humour","humourous","humourous","impersonal","impersonal-world","intellect","intellectual-capacity","intelligence","intelligence","intelligent-design","laugh-at-yourself","life-beyond","life-lesson","life-on-earth","life-on-other-planets","life-philosophy","life","losing-it","losing-yourself","lost-generation","lost-souls","machine","machine-autonomy","machine-man","manipulate","manipulation","manipulation-of-others","manipulation-of-the-masses","manipulation","manipulative","manipulative-people","mankind","mobile","mobile-app-development","mobile-device","mobile-phone","mobile-phones","mobiles","monitoring","move","move-backward","move-forward","movements","moves","neanderthal","neanderthal-marries-human","oblong","obsessive-compulsions","obsessive-compulsive-disorder","obsessive-interests","other-world","other-worldly","other-worlds","otherworld","overrun","palm","palms","perception","perception-and-reality","perception-of-life","perception-of-others","perception-of-reality","perceptions","perplexed","perplexing","perplexity","persuade","persuasion","persuasive","persuasiveness","planet","planet-earth","planetary","planetary-exploration","planetary-shift","powers-of-persuasion","prediction","predictions","programmed-to-receive","programmers","programming","programming","programming-your-mind","quotable","quotable","quotation-collections","of-the-day","about-life","on-life","quotology","regression","reversal","reverse","reverse-worlds","robot","robot-world","robotic","robotic-humans","robotic-machinery","robots","satire","satire","satirical","satirical-humor","satirical","skill","skill-sets","skills","skills","slab","slate","slave","slave-to-the-machine","slavery","slavery","society-denial","society-problem","society","subservience","subservient","telcos","telecommunications","telecoms","to-the-contrary","tongue-in-cheek","universal-truth","universal-truths","universe","universe","universe","virtual-cubicle","virtual-reality","virtual-world","watcher","watchers","watching","worry","worrying","worrying-about-the-future"],"id":432767,"author_id":"Alex+Morritt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":2,"pages":1}}