“We might have new issues involving information technology for example, or new questions arising out of the war on terror, or new issues arising from natural disasters that can't be anticipated.” WarMightNaturalTechnologyIssuesInformationExampleTerrorDisasterInvolvingWar On TerrorInformation TechnologyNatural Disaster Author:Cass Sunstein
“All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.” ActionScienceForceUnderstandingNaturalPerfectMoralTechnologyAchieveScience And Technology Book:Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays
“There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in technology; no natural death to be counted on to stop an economic change that ripped up ancestral estates or stirred up class discontent.” IdeasPoliticalNaturalSimpleClassTechnologyEconomicDangerousEstatesDiscontentAssassinationRippedDisruptiveAvertNatural DeathEconomic ChangeRiddance Author:Robert Heilbroner
“If we're ever going to get the world back on a natural footing, back in tune with natural rhythyms, if we're going to nurture the Earth and protect it and have fun with it and learn from it - which is what mothers do with their children - then we've got to put technology (an aggressive masculine system) in its proper place, which is that of a tool to be used sparingly, joyfully, gently and only in the fullest cooperation with nature. Nature must govern technology, not the other way around.” IfsWorldWayChildrenEarthUsedMotherFunNaturalTechnologyProtectToolsHaving FunTunesCooperationAggressiveNurtureMasculineCowgirls Author:Tom Robbins
“I'm actually a huge fan of digital as well. I appreciate how that technology opens the doors for filmmakers who never had access to that level of quality before. However, I do think film itself sets the standard for quality. You can talk about range, light, sensitive, resolution -- there's something about film that is undeniably beautiful, undeniably organic and natural and real.” ThinkingWellsRealLightBeautifulFilmNaturalLevelsQualityTechnologyDoorsFansHugeStandardsAppreciateAccessRangeSensitiveFilmmakerDigitalResolution Author:J. J. Abrams
“In our time, in particular, there exists another form of ownership which is becoming no less important than land: the possession of know-how, technology and skill. The wealth of the industrialized nations is based much more on this kind of ownership than on natural resources.” KnowsKindImportantWisdomFormPoliticsNationsNaturalWealthTechnologyKnow HowEconomyLandParticularBecomingSkillsResourcesPossessionOur TimeLiberalismOwnershipNatural Resources Author:Pope John Paul II
“Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.” ThinkingWorldHumansMayStillsUseNaturalHuman BeingsAnimalTechnologyAdvantageMachinesBoundsIntimacyEaseNatural WorldIntercourse Book:the zodiac arch Source: the zodiac arch
“I recognize the need for technology that enriches life while preserving our natural environment. My goal is to stimulate productivity, but use technology to redeem, not to destroy our environment.” NeedsUseGoalNaturalTechnologyEnvironmentProductivityOur EnvironmentNatural Environment Author:Gerald R. Ford
“Why do you suppose that in the last 100 years technology has evolved a thousand times further than it has in the last 3,000 years? It's the level of souls that are incarnating. The older Atlantean souls are coming back. They have a natural affinity for communication, electronics, medicine, law and media.” YearsSoulLastsLawNaturalLevelsTechnologyMediaCommunicationThousandMedicineAncientComing BackAffinityElectronicsAncient EgyptAtlantis Author:Frederick Lenz
“The aboriginal peoples of Australia illustrate the conflict between technology and the natural world succinctly, by asking, 'What will you do when the clever men destroy your water?' That, in truth, is what the world is coming to.” MenWorldWaterNaturalTechnologyEnvironmentTruth IsConflictAskingCleverAustraliaNatural WorldAboriginalClever Man Author:Winona LaDuke
“The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity's language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its constructive faculties, the desert alone is an extension of its capacity for absence, the ideal schema of humanity's disappearance.” IfsBodyHumanityLanguageNaturalSilenceTechnologyBuildingCapacityIdealsAbsenceDesertFacultyExtensionsConstructiveDisappearanceSchemas Author:Jean Baudrillard
“The laws of thermodynamics restrict all technologies, man's as well as nature's, and apply to all economic systems whether capitalist, communist, socialist, or fascist. We do not create or destroy (produce or consume) anything in a physical sense- we merely transform or rearrange. And the inevitable cost of arranging greater order in one part of the system (the human economy) is creating a more than offsetting amount of disorder elsewhere (the natural environment).” MenHumansWellsLawOrderNaturalTechnologyEconomyEnvironmentGreaterEconomicProduceAmountCostCreatingInevitableCommunistDisorderCapitalistElsewhereSocialistFascistsNatural EnvironmentEconomic SystemsArrangingThermodynamics Author:Herman E. Daly
“In the last 10 years, children have been locked inside their rooms, glued to their PCs. ... But now with mobile technology, we can actually take our children outside into the natural world with their technology.” WorldYearsChildrenHas BeensLastsNaturalRoomsTechnologyOur ChildrenLockedMobileNatural WorldMobile Technology Author:Shilo Shiv Suleman
“The illusion that mechanical progress means human improvement ... alienates us from our own being and our own reality. It is precisely because we are convinced that our life, as such, is better if we have a better car, a better TV set, better toothpaste, etc., that we condemn and destroy our own reality and the reality of our natural resources. Technology was made for man, not man for technology. In losing touch with being and thus with God, we have fallen into a senseless idolatry of production and consumption for their own sakes.” IfsMenHumansMeanMadeRealityNaturalTechnologyOur LivesProgressCarTvsLosingIllusionResourcesSakeProductionsConvincedImprovementFallenEtcConsumptionConsumerismIdolatryNatural ResourcesOverconsumptionToothpaste Book:Seeds Source: Seeds