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Card #c65IR // #c65Synthesis

So we should ask not “What will technology do to us?” but rather “What do we want to do with technology?”

— In our words · Source: Machine, Platform, Crowd (Andrew McAfee & Erik Brynjolfsson)

[Use when]

When the conversation turns fatalist about AI, platforms, or crowds.

[Why it matters]

The book's closing reversal: technology is a tool, not a fate — the question was never what it does to us, but what we choose to do with it.

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