<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The machines of the future will know almost... > The machines of the future will know almost everything about our civilization, but knowledge alone will not tell them what was worth preserving. **Source:** [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]], [[working/authorship-west-extraction-markup-20260922/postimages/articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]], [[working/authorship-west-extraction-markup-20260922/preimages/articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]], [[working/authorship-west-reminder-links-repair-20260922/postimages/articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]], [[working/authorship-west-reminder-links-repair-20260922/preimages/articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The machines of the future will know almost everything about our civilization, but knowledge alone will not tell them what was worth preserving.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-machines-future-know-tell-worth-preserving ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->