3,132 Quotes About Technology

By the end of the decade many of these technologies will have crossed the chasm and become disruptive, creating a world in which people, insights, and money interact quickly, easily and cheaply, affecting nearly every industry at every level. This will have both positive and negatives, for each new wave brings a period of technological Darwinism, as creation never travels alone; its companion, destruction, always hitches a ride.

Most people blindly assume that machines will only be used as our slaves, when they are just as likely to be used in our enslavement. Individual freedoms, liberty and equality are a relatively new state of affairs for most nations, and as a species we have considerably more experience in treating people as commodities than as free agents.

The human spirit must prevail over technology.Albert EinsteinTechnology is a physical shape of the human spirit; therefore, it can never prevail upon its origin.Ehsan Sehgal

Companies that are indifferent to democracy have acquired an outsized role in it.

Instagram provides us with endless distorted versions of what beauty, love, relationships, friendships, and happiness look like in real life.

An indispensable good transported to the far corners of the world, black gold had become the very vector of the industrial vascular network, the blood of human technology.

Silicon Valley is no longer the valley of innovators who solve problems, it has turned into the valley of resourceful stupidity.

...[I]t is simply impossible to predict the effects of lifetime exposure to chemical and physical agents that are not part of the biological experience of man.

High above Adam's prison, new creatures sweep up into satellite orbit and back down to the planet's surface, obeying the old, first hungers, the primal commands - look, listen, taste, touch, feel, say, join. They gossip to one other, these new species, exchanging discoveries, as living code has exchanged itself from the beginning. They begin to link up, to fuse together, to merge their cells and form small communities. There's no saying what they might become, in seventy plus seventy years.