quotations about technology
In the struggle for freedom of information, technology not politics will be the ultimate decider.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE
attributed, Murdoch
Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.
KEVIN KELLY
What Technology Wants
We are prone, especially in this fast-moving country, to what I call the displacive fallacy--to believe that every new technology displaces the old technology; that television will replace radio, that electronic news will displace print journalism, that the automobile will displace the human foot, and that television will displace the book. But each of these new technologies has simply given a new role to the earlier technologies. The development of technology is not displacive--it is cumulative.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN
testimony before a Congressional copyright hearing on VCRs, 1984
Our advanced technological society is rapidly making objects of us and subtly programming us into conformity to the logic of its system to the degree that this happens, we are also becoming submerged in a new "Culture of Silence."
PAULO FREIRE
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.
DENNIS GABOR
Innovations: Scientific, Technological and Social
The early leader in almost any technology is usually not the ultimate winner.
FORBES TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL
"Five Thoughts On What Bitcoin's Rise In Value Means", Forbes, March 31, 2017
One can say that utopia is the final state of technological development. At this stage, technology becomes self-reflective.
BORIS GROYS
"Art, Technology, and Humanism", e-flux, May 2017
If we're ever going to get the world back on a natural footing, back in tune with natural rhythyms, if we're going to nurture the Earth and protect it and have fun with it and learn from it -- which is what mothers do with their children -- then we've got to put technology (an aggressive masculine system) in its proper place, which is that of a tool to be used sparingly, joyfully, gently and only in the fullest cooperation with nature. Nature must govern technology, not the other way around.
TOM ROBBINS
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues