## Metadata - Author: [[Ray Nayler]] - Full Title: The Mountain in the Sea - Category: #books ## Highlights - A philosopher of the twentieth century, Paul Virilio, said: ‘When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution. Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.’ ([Location 3491](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09NTKMJ1K&location=3491)) - “Good coffee is nothing more than expensive beans, clean water, and math.” ([Location 3628](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09NTKMJ1K&location=3628)) - This isn’t going to be a first-contact story, where humanity achieves enlightenment because we finally realize we aren’t alone in the universe, and we all hold hands and sing around a campfire together staring up at the stars. We don’t have the capacity as a species for a happy ending like that. No. This all ends in the destruction of whatever fragile little society they are building down there, in what is left of an ocean ecosystem we have been systematically destroying on an industrial scale for centuries. It ends with us wiping out yet another species. And this time, we will be wiping out a species that has a culture. It won’t be extinction: it will be genocide. And it will happen before I even get a chance to understand them…” ([Location 3656](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B09NTKMJ1K&location=3656))