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Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

Steven Pinker
Reading, Technology, Perspective
Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.203, Penguin

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

Steven Pinker
Technology, Humanity, Violence

Fiction is empathy technology.

Steven Pinker
Technology, Empathy, Fiction

As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred between them tends to decrease, for the simple reason that you can't kill someone and trade with him too.

Steven Pinker
Technology, Simple, People
Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.232, Penguin

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