Quotes About Society

We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.

You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.

Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

I think the new technologies have become pervasive in our society, such as cellphones and the internet, and they've insidiously affected our personal sense of space and belonging.

I think in many ways, the texture of technology actually diminishes human beings. It doesn't augment them.

Technology and violence are interdependent.

All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.

They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion!

The liberating force of technology the instrumentalization of things turns into ... the instrumentalization of man.

Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.

You see a wave of populism in the world. There is something wrong. This maybe because of technology.

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

All the drug dealers and gang members with whom I dealt had [a cell phone] long before any police officer I knew did.

The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics.

Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.

Technology's become the great prism for what's going on in the world.

I'm by no means convinced that capitalism and the development of technology has made anarchism easier.

Those who find it hypocritical of others to use, say, a smartphone, to speak ill of capitalism, needs to be reminded that capitalism is an ideology, not a technology.

The Machine stops.""What do you say?""The Machine is stopping, I know it, I know the signs."She burst into a peal of laugher.

To speak of television as 'neutral' and therefore subject to change is as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns.

...people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

People are lazy that's why today's technology is crazy.

Technology is grey. More technology, less colors. We're building a world with colors only in poems.