“Concern for the fate of the great rivers of the earth must lead us to reflect soberly on the model of development which our society is pursuing. A purely economic and technological understanding of progress, to the extent that it fails to acknowledge its intrinsic limitations and to take into consideration the integral good of humanity, will inevitably provoke negative consequences for individuals, peoples and creation itself.” EarthHumanityIndividualUnderstandingWaterFateProgressFailingEconomicCreationDevelopmentModelsConsequenceConcernNegativeRiversEnvironmentalLimitationAcknowledgeConsiderationOur SocietyProvokingTechnologicalNegative Consequences Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“While the rich reap most of the benefits of technological development, the poor bear an unequal burden of dealing with the consequences of the resulting increased pollution. The poor continue to live in greatest proximity to the sources of pollution, the infrastructure and machinery of industry. They work in the most polluted and physically dangerous workplaces. And these same individuals, living and working closest to the sources of environmental catastrophe, are also the ones most lacking decent health care.” CareIndividualPoorRichDangerousSourceDevelopmentIndustryBearsBenefitsConsequenceEnvironmentalBurdenHealth CareDecentPollutionClosestLackingTechnologicalWorkplaceCatastropheInfrastructureMachineryReapProximityTechnological Development Author:James H. Cone
“In a culture of electronic violence, images that once caused us to empathize with the pain and trauma of another human being, excite a momentary adrenaline rush. To be numb to another's pain - to be acculturated to violence - is one of the worst consequences our technological advances. That indifference transfers from the screen, TV, film, Internet, and electronic games to our everyday lives.” HumansPainFilmCultureGamesLanguageHuman BeingsViolenceSocietyWorstTvsCommunicationInternetConsequenceEverydayTraumaScreensIndifferenceTechnologicalEveryday LifeTransfersNumbAdrenalineMomentaryAdrenaline Rush Author:John Naisbitt
“Given all that history has shown us of the consequences of technology - from the atlatl spear to the A-bomb - why have so few groups of human beings managed to resist the incursions of technology? Or be choosy about the extent to which they'll employ a technological innovation?” HumansGivenHuman BeingsTechnologyGroupsConsequenceInnovationBombsTechnologicalSpearsChoosy Author:Stephanie Mills
“A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.” LongRunningMajorsConsequenceLong RunsTechnologicalUnderestimated Author:Francis Collins
“Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.” HumansTechnologyEnvironmentDutyConsequenceWesternProsperityAcceptedSurrenderInventionPrimitiveTechnologicalArbitraryImperativesNoveltyTabooSave Mother EarthWestern Society Author:Lewis Mumford