Quotes About Society

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.

The intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction.

The nature of technology depends very much upon what the public can be induced to put up with.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.

Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology.

We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies.

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

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

The most human thing about us is our technology.

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.

Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.

Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement.

Now that corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance or change in technology is an opening for them to further restrict or mistreat its users.

I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts.

The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.

Our technology forces us to live mythically

Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.

Technology has an incredible role to play in enabling of policy issues.