Hot new Einstein quote

[Jonathan Lighter]

This has been cybercirculating for a couple of weeks, attributed Albert
Einstein, who was even smarter than Mark Twain:

“I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world
will only have a generation of idiots.”

I find no confirmation that Einstein ever said anything like this, and no
citations before almost this minute. Note the sloppy placement of "only,"
the peculiarly inarticulate use of "overlap with," the off-center use of
"the technology."

It also has the same two-declarative-sentence structure of many popular
bogus quotes.

JL

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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