I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance ... and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance ... to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money...as a result of the change. Although they never advanced this as their reason for resisting it. It was always the good of humanity that rested upon their hearts.
ISAAC ASIMOV, lecture at Newark College of Engineering, Nov. 8, 1974
Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything.
JOSE M.R. DELGADO, Scientific American, October 2005
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
