T Quotes
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“Technological advancement is driven by human curiosity and a need to do things faster and easier.”
Source: Disrupt Yourself Or Be Disrupted
“Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.”
“Technological advances have always been driven more by a mind-set of 'I can' than 'I should' Technologists love to cram maximum functionality into their products. That's 'I can' thinking, which is driven by peer competition and market forces But this approach ignores the far more important question of how the consumer will actually use the device focus on what we should be doing, not just what we can.”
“Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.”
“Technological change defines the horizon of our material world as it shapes the limiting conditions of what is possible and what is barely imaginable. It erodesassumptions about the nature of our reality, the "pattern" in which we dwell, and lays open new choices.”
“Technological change is beneficial only when other jobs replace the ones lost.”
“Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the music industry did not invent the iPod or launch iTunes.”
“Technological civilization has now dominated the earth to the point where there is a big question what is going to happen next.”
“Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the production of goods. Science in all its branches - physics, chemistry, biology, and psychology - is the servant and upholder of this system”
“Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins.”
Source: Cauldron
“Technological consciousness takes itself dead seriously; it has no sense of humor. The fool can play no role in it, for there is no other realm that is can see beyond itself to which the fool can point. Consciousness in the throes of desire cannot tolerate laughter any more than criticism of laughter can be tolerated in a moment of sexual lust.”
Source: Moral Philosophy and the Modern World
“Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.”
“Technological defeatism - a belief that, since a given technology is here to stay, there's nothing we can do about it other than get on with it and simply adjust our norms - is a persistent feature of social thought about technology. We'll come to pay for it very dearly.”
“Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.”
“Technological errors made by government, industry [DDT, ABM, SST, CIA, etc.] are those of children, who, even thought they don't know what the score is, go on playing pre-technological games of power and profit.”
Source: M: Writings '67–'72
“Technological evolution is good. But that does not mean humans should stop evolving.”
Source: Quantraz
“Technological evolution is leading to something new: a worldwide, interlocked, monolithic, technical-political web of unprecedented negative proportions.”
“Technological evolution is the result of our own desire to lead a better life.”
“Technological fruits such as audiobooks are food for the illusion that we can really do more than one thing at the same time.”
“Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds smoking between courses to be an aid to digestion.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of computing, making it possible for large numbers of consumers to own powerful new technologies at reasonably low prices.”
“Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.”
“Technological innovation is the successful implementation (in commerce or management) of a technical idea new to the institution creating it.”
“Technological innovations that produced certain major components of the United States military cannot be understood as resulting from a qualitative arms race. Those involved in decisions about new military technologies for the U.S. Army and Air Force simply do not appear to have had access to good intelligence about the Soviet military technological developments. How, then, were decisions made as to technologies to develop?
Military research and development decisions are made amid great uncertainties. In an ideal world, such decisions would be managed by estimating the future costs of alternative programs and their prospective military values, and then pursuing the program with the best ratio of cost to value. But...there are tremendous difficulties in forecasting the real value and costs of weapons development programs. These uncertainties, combined with the empirical difficulty American technology managers had in collecting intelligence on the Soviet Union, meant that research and development strategies in the real world tended to become strategies for managing uncertainties. At least two such strategies are conceivable. One of the most politically important can be called, for want of a better phrase, "let the scientists choose." [This approach should be] compared with the theoretical and practical arguments for a strategy that concentrates on low-cot hedges against various forms of uncertainty.”
Source: Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military
“Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.”
“Technological measures are important, but equally important is... a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared responsibility.”
“Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will.”
“Technological progress greatly outpaced maturity.”
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization
“Technological progression can lead to or be a sign of cultural regression.”
“Technological prowess does not guarantee social wisdom.”
“Technological rationality reveals its political character as it becomes the great vehicle of better domination, creating a truely totalitarian universe in which society and nature, mind and body are kept in a state of permanent mobilization for the defense of this universe.”
Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“Technological revolutions are very hard to predict. My favourite example is someone in 1850 taking care of horses as a farrier. They would have said, "Look, horses have been part of human existence for 5,000 years. We are horse people. It's permanent." But all of a sudden, the internal combustion engine comes along and, with it, oil fields and automobiles, which basically replace the horse completely. So we often have these long periods of stability and then a sudden inflection point.”
“Technological singularity is inevitable given the human nature to discover, create, and change the world that we live in.”
Source: The Transhumanism Handbook
“Technological society has forgotten what scholars call the 'dying role' and its importance to people as life approaches its end. People want to share memories, pass on wisdoms and keepsakes, settle relationships, establish their legacies, make peace with God, and ensure that those who are left behind will be okay. They want to end their stories on their own terms. This role is, observers argue, among life's most important, for both the dying and those left behind. And if it is, the way we deny people this role, out of obtuseness and neglect, is cause for everlasting shame. Over and over, we in medicine inflict deep gouges at the end of people's lives and then stand oblivious to the harm done.”
Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
“Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.”
Source: Christian Values and Virtues
“Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization. A class of people is growing up who are unexploitable because they are not worth employing even for the minimum wage. Technological progress makes whole categories of people useless without making it possible to support them with the wealth produced by the progress.”
“Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about.”
“Technological transformations give you the chance to set up new and ambitious ventures. That's what I did with FastWeb and that is what we are doing with Babelgum. This is much more than TV because we are making the content available all across the world and you have an open platform with freedom of choice.”
“Technologically I live in the 17th century. I have a very simple cell phone. I say I live through the kindness of strangers, because if they see something on the Net they type it out and send it to me.”
“Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.”
“Technologically, modern man does everything he can do-he functions on this single boundary principle. Modern man, seeing himself as autonomous, with no personal-infinite God who has spoken, has no adequate universal to supply an adequate second boundary condition; and man being fallen is not only finite, but sinful. Thus man's pragmatically made choices have no reference point beyond human egotism. It is dog eat dog, man eat man, man eat nature.”
“Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.”
Source: The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology
“Technologies aren’t created in isolation. They are imprinted with the ghosts of their past.”
Source: Resilient Web Design
“Technologies can be liberating, but it can also be a tool of coercion and control.”
“Technologies first equipped the territorial body with bridges, aqueducts, railways, highways, airports, etc. Now that the most powerful technologies are becoming tiny - microtechnologies, all technologies can invade the body. These micro-machines will feed the body. Research is being conducted in order to create additional memory for instance.”
“Technologies for stimulating the brain and controlling the mind can have benefits, but they have a dark side that military and intelligence planners have been exploiting for decades”
“Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,-in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?”
“Technologies of easy travel give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot?”
“Technologies provoke us to rethink what it means to be authentically human.”