Quotes About Control

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

Consumers today are less responsive to traditional media. They are embracing new technologies that empower them with more control over how and when they are marketed to.

The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control

The surveillance state has run amok. Technology that's enabled us to send selfies 24/7 - not that valuable - has also enabled us to be spied upon us 24/7.

I would not let an adult drive my robot. You don't have enough gaming experience. But I will let a kid with no license take control of my vehicle system.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.

Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny.

The part that frightens the hell out of me is the goverment deciding where technology goes.

Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.

Our fear of technology is really a fear of empowerment. We now have the ability to design the reality we live in, and we have to step up to the occasion.

When discussing overall impacts on employment, it is important not to overlook the new technologies and industries that can be driven by pollution control standards.

Every important machine's got to have a big red button.

We are not as strong as technology's pull.

With technology today, companies are less in control of their brand

We need to make sure that we are using technology, and technology is not using us.

I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from it. It had no limits. It was invincible. It was to be conquered and mastered like the Earth herself.

New technologies are a good thing but we must consider how they will impact on us so that, when they become achievable, they aren't allowed to run amok.

Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on

Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before.

A search engine can determine who shall live and who shall die.