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Arthur C. Clarke

“Man was, therefore, still a prisoner on his own planet. It was much fairer, but a much smaller, planet than it had been a century before. When the Overlords abolished war and hunger and disease, they had also abolished adventure.”

Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
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