Here is where the predictions failed: We didn't take Cargo Cult mentality into account: "if somebody has something I don't, he must have stolen it."
We didn't understand how good we could get at communication - when you have something that someone else doesn't, the whole damn planet knows it. (Larry Niven)

Here is where the predictions failed: We didn't take Cargo Cult mentality into account: "if somebody has something I don't, he must have stolen it." We didn't understand how good we could get at communication - when you have something that someone else doesn't, the whole damn planet knows it.

Larry Niven

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