Law of Suppression of Radical Potential (Winston)

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1) External forces contain whatever aspect of the technology might disrupt reigning property relations and social forms.

2) Inventions that promise to re-shape the world inevitably lose their transforming power.

Edmundson, Mark. "EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONTROL." The New
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