“New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity.” TechnologyProgressProsperityEmploymentGuaranteesAlliesIndispensableTrue FriendNew Technology Author:Margaret Thatcher
“How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want to challenge are built into those means? Science and new technology today like to declare that they encourage 'lateral thinking,' new ways of seeing and putting data together - but all systems have an inbuilt resistance to what has not been programmed into them through the premises on which their rules are based.” ThinkingWayWantMeanTodayTogetherValuesChallengesTechnologyProgressSeeingStandardsBuiltCommunicateResistanceDataConventionalNew WaysStatus QuoHypothesisPremisesNew TechnologyLateral Thinking Book:Improper behavior Source: Improper behavior
“One of the reasons I think people are increasingly nervous about U.S. debt is because they think that we are not actually digging ourselves out of the hole, but instead are digging ourselves into a deeper and deeper hole and will not be able to pay it back because we're not actually creating the new technologies that will enable us to pay back and the money somehow is not really being invested in the future or in progress.” PeopleThinkingReasonAblePayTechnologyProgressCreatingDeeperDebtHolesNervousDiggingNew Technology Author:Peter Thiel
“We are very concerned all the time with figuring out new technologies and advances in science, but really [while] our future is dependent on science and progress, it's not less dependent on the way we treat each other.” WayTechnologyProgressConcernedTreatsDependentOur FutureNew TechnologyAdvances In Science Author:Michal Rovner
“You can't just stop technological progress. Even if one country stops researching artificial intelligence, some other countries will continue to do it. The real question is what to do with the technology. You can use exactly the same technology for very different social and political purposes. So I think people shouldn't be focused on the question of how to stop technological progress because this is impossible. Instead the question should be what kind of usage to make of the new technology. And here we still have quite a lot of power to influence the direction it's taking.” PeopleThinkingKindDifferentRealCountryPoliticalPurposeTechnologyProgressImpossibleInfluenceFocusedArtificial IntelligenceTechnologicalNew Technology Author:Matt Haig