<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # No committee, statute, corporation or laboratory... > No committee, statute, corporation or laboratory possesses a lever marked RETURN TO BEFORE. The species has crossed another threshold in the long evolution of information, cognition and technology, and whatever emerges from this transition will inherit a world whose most basic assumptions have already begun to dissolve. **Source:** [[articles/We Cannot Un-Strike the Match|We Cannot Un-Strike the Match. There Is No Safety. There Is No Retreat.]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “No committee, statute, corporation or laboratory possesses a lever marked RETURN TO BEFORE. The species has crossed another threshold in the long evolution of information, cognition and technology, and whatever emerges from this transition will inherit a world whose most basic assumptions have already begun to dissolve.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-no-committee-statute-already-begun-dissolve ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->