“The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.” MenFearPowerMankindDangerOrdinaryExtraordinaryChiefsOrdinary Man Book:The Heart of Man Source: The Heart of Man
“Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without.” MenMindHumansAbleNaturalSubjectsMankindObjectsBehaviorAdvantageFellowsExtraordinaryAnalysisHuman MindContemplatingHuman BehaviorFellow ManInvestigators Book:Essential works Source: Essential works
“I do not doubt that services like social games and coupons bring delight to peoples lives, and I mean no disrespect to the hard work that has made them possible. But in the face of threats to humanitys future on the one hand and the extraordinary potential of mankind on the other, at some point we must ask: are we capable of more?” MeanMadeHardHandsFacesAsksGamesSocialDoubtMankindHard WorkCapableThreatExtraordinaryDelightDisrespect Author:Justin Rosenstein
“To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.” SeemsRaceVirtueMankindExtraordinaryRidiculousSuperiorsSanctityPretension Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“These new technologies try to make virtual reality more powerful than actual reality, which is the true accident. The day when virtual reality becomes more powerful than reality will be the day of the big accident. Mankind never experienced such an extraordinary accident.” TryingBigsRealityPowerfulTechnologyMankindExtraordinaryAccidentsNew TechnologyVirtual Reality Author:Paul Virilio