The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.
Man's civility is lagging behind his technological ability. It could mean disaster and catastrophe for the whole world. We're all sinners, everyone of us, and a radical change is needed for all of us.
Twitter is more a cultural than a technological change.
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time. . . when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstitions and darkness.
You can learn technological things, you can learn about specific things, but the real problems that people deal with in any subject, existential subjects or romantic subjects, you never learn anything. So you make a fool of yourself when you're 20, you make a fool of yourself at 40, at 60 at 80. The ancient Greeks were dealing with these problems. They screwed up all the time. People do now.
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.
David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.
Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball bats. We understand that technology will ruin our games, but we do not understand that it can also ruin cultures.
Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature’s services in a world of close to 7 billion people
I think it would be a great tragedy to devote medical resources and genetic technological breakthroughs to purposes that are not to do with health or medicine, but instead are to do with satisfying the desires that are created by the consumer society.
A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.
The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.
What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness. . . is discipline, consciousness, and unity.
I believe that all technological societies tend to self-destruct. The reason is that the very things that make us a successful technological society, such as our curiosity, our ambition and determination, will also cause us to fall.
Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will.
I am excited about focusing full-time on talking about my job-creation agenda and building a new economy for Washington state. We have a great chance to seize our own destiny, build our own industries, and create our own technological revolutions right here at home.
I've tried to become a singer with the guitar and not let any technological licks run my life. Just write the licks and play them as best as I can as a part rather than ad libbing.