The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Technology, Society
As communications technologies develop, we must ensure that such progress does not come at the expense of our nation’s safety and security.
Bill Bryson – Technological progress
Technology has progressed but left the earth behind, no morality, no ethics…
Alexander Cohen – technology
The old have failed to adapt to the changes; the violence of modern technology sees its reflection in Ultraviolence, beyond violence.
Alexander Cohen – Technology, Violence
Labor in this age is no longer that of production, but of destruction without purpose, violence without a referent.
Alexander Cohen – Production, Labor
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
Lewis Mumford – Technology, Civilization
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.
Lewis Mumford – Modern science
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
J. G. Ballard – Science and technology
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Technology
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke – Technology vs Magic
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.
Arthur Koestler – Technology
We need better technologies. But I’m pretty confident that we can figure this out. Necessity is the mother of a lot of inventions.
Chu on Technology
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
Adorno on Technology
We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values. Technology can help cure diseases, but we can prevent a lot of diseases by old-fashioned changes in behavior.
Bill Clinton – Technology and Values
Technology can give us a lot of information about why we should act rationally in certain cases. But continuing to hate our friends and neighbors because of their religious, racial, tribal, or ethnic differences, that is an affair of the human heart.
