People
The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery · Terre des Hommes (1939) (Wind, Sand and Stars)
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The statement challenges the idea that machines separate people from nature's great problems. Instead, it presents machinery as a means of becoming more deeply involved in them. That reversal frames technology as part of an encounter with nature rather than a guaranteed escape from it.
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