Quotes About Impact

When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and, 'What kinds of politics of reform do technological solutions smuggle through the back door?'

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.

I am super optimistic about the near-term prospects of AI because every time there is a technological disruption, it gives us the opportunity of making the world a little different.

People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technological change. In the short-term, it's not going to make that much of a difference.

I do think that deciding between a particular discovery and a technological breakthrough - I would always think the impact is probably much larger for the technological breakthrough.

I don't want to tell a story about how technological advancement is bad.

Technological change is essential, but to a natural historian it often feels cold and distancing.

Changes that are being enhanced by technological innovation (social media being a case in point) are happening at an increasing rate.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Ultimately, what the tech industry really cares about is ushering in the future, but it conflates technological progress with societal progress.

The progressive integration of new technologies in our economy amounts to a paradigm shift with a profound impact on the context and content of work.

I want to impact the world through futuristic yet affordable technologies to make the world a better place.

When Apple looks at what categories to enter, we ask these kinds of questions: What are the primary technologies behind this? What do we bring? Can we make a significant contribution to society with this? If we can't, and if we can't own the key technologies, we don't do it.

Safer chemicals and more energy-efficient technologies can provide cooling without severe climate implications. Shifting to these alternatives could avoid the equivalent of 12 times the current annual carbon pollution of the United States by 2050.

Without question, intelligent technologies will continue to disrupt the world as we know it. There will be profound implications, both positive and negative.

We will hear more regrets from founders of tech companies about the addictive technologies they have launched.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don't pretend that if Facebook didn't exist, that this wouldn't even be possible. Of course, it would have.

One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.

We live in a world where, for whatever reason, the conversations that tend to stick are the ones where 'if it bleeds, it leads.' But we've always been afraid of new technologies in spite of the fact that they've helped improve our lives in countless ways.

It's reasonable to say that certain things we understand should perhaps have limits on how they're used and how certain technologies are deployed. That's very much what we should do as a society.

I think we are always right to worry about damaging consequences of new technologies even as we are empowered by them. History suggests we should not panic nor be too sanguine about cool new gizmos. There's a delicate balance.

I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.

When you put in place regulations that are so burdensome, so tough, so much so that they cripple your economy, we then don't have the resources to invest in technologies that are going to make that difference, because it's just going to shut everything down. That's not going to help us as an economy.