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The promise of technology is to remove the division between culture and nature. Whatever part of nature that is left over as an independent force is covered by the technological bluff, which refers it to the agenda of the future and disguises the deficiencies of the present.

Donald Phillip Verene

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Donald Phillip Verene (born 24 October, 1937) is Charles Howard Chandler Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy at Emory University.

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