377 quotes found
“Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each...”
“Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.”
“We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues. ”
“Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.”
“When an inscrutable technology becomes an invisible technology, we would be wise to be concerned. At that point, the technology's assumptions and intentions have infiltrated our own desires and act...”
“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
“It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.”
“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.”
“Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.”
“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”
“Our technology forces us to live mythically”
“Here though, there are no oppressors. No one's forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basi...”
“This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)”
“Design is not limited to fancy new gadgets. Our family just bought a new washing machine and dryer. We didnt have a very good one so we spent a little time looking at them. It turns out that the Am...”
“I hate technology. It provides so many different channels of loneliness. Every time you check your email and dont see a new message, you know that, even though people have the ability to contact yo...”
“As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.”
“The point is not how we use a tool, but how it uses us.”
“Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding that would de-ideolog...”
“First we build the tools, then they build us.”
