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"What do traffic jams, obesity and spam have in common?

"They are all problems caused by abundance in a world more attuned to scarcity. By achieving the goal of abundance, technology renders the natural checks and balances of scarcity obsolete."

-- Peter de Jager, Globe and Mail, 2003-10-10.

(From the Quotation of the Day mailing list, 2003-11-16. Submitted to the list by Terry Labach.)