22 quotes
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
"We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us."
— Marshall McLuhan
"It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame."
"First we build the tools, then they build us."
"Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone."
— Dan Brown
"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."
— Bill Gates
"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
— Aldous Huxley
"I wouldn't say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists."
— Ashton Kutcher
"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."
— Buckminster Fuller
"Our technology forces us to live mythically"
"The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light."
"In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them."
— Jules Verne
"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."
— John Stuart Mill
"Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there."
— Gloria Steinem
"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
— Frank Lloyd Wright
"...no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works."
— Douglas Adams
"if we lose our human values by having everything mechanied, then machines will dictate our lives."
— Dalai Lama
"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."
— Alan Watts
"If you run from technology, it will chase you."
— Robert M. Pirsig