<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # You can dislike the locomotive, but disliking it... > You can dislike the locomotive, but disliking it does not turn the railway back into grass. Technological irreversibility is not an endorsement; it is a property of accumulated capability. Once knowledge is distributed across nations, companies, universities, repositories, models, chips, papers, and millions of human minds, there is no magical committee that makes everyone unknow it. **Source:** [[articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]], [[research/AI-Tech Doomers Publication/preimages/2026-09-17-article-route/articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “You can dislike the locomotive, but disliking it does not turn the railway back into grass. Technological irreversibility is not an endorsement; it is a property of accumulated capability. Once knowledge is distributed across nations, companies, universities, repositories, models, chips, papers, and millions of human minds, there is no magical committee that makes everyone unknow it.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-dislike-locomotive-disliking-makes-everyone-unknow ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->