“I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster and better, and I'm generally a big fan of this. I just want to make sure that this technology stays subservient to people. People are the number one entity there is on this planet.” PeopleWantBigsBeliefNumbersTechnologyFansPlanetsFasterEmpoweringEntitySubservientReally Deep Author:Sebastian Thrun
“I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.” BeliefTechnologyReaderUnderstoodArtificial IntelligenceArtificialBelief Systems Author:Jaron Lanier
“I think the sentiment has not entirely shifted away from the belief that technology will continue to do well. But the believers are getting more and more worried about their beliefs.” ThinkingWellsBeliefTechnologyBelieverWorriedSentiments Author:Kate Warne
“Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.” WayRealSelfSpiritChoicesBeliefSidesHurtTechnologyProgressDangerousDrugShadowMachinesAccountsSafetyMedicineLifestyleExpensiveLazySophisticatedSelf RelianceRelianceSafety NetLifestyle ChoicesShadow Side Author:Andrew Weil
“There is something wrong with using faith - belief without evidence - as a political weapon. I wouldn't say there is something similar about using science. Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.” WayRealHappensPoliticalBeliefTechnologyAchieveProductsWeaponsEvidenceSomething Real Author:Richard Dawkins
“My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago.” YearsHas BeensTwoThreeBeliefTechnologyEconomicHundredYears AgoLogicCrueltySophisticatedUnimaginablePersonal Beliefs Author:David Foster Wallace
“We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.” AgeBeliefEmotionTechnologyStonesCombinationBizarreMedievalStone Age Author:E. O. Wilson
“The trouble is that all-encompassing though information technology may be, it will always convey facts and numbers ... what it does not convey is perception, belief and motivation.” MayDoeFactsMotivationBeliefNumbersTechnologyTroubleInformationPerceptionInformation Technology Author:John Harvey-Jones