Quotes About Impact

Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house, or whether a torturer uses it to crush somebody's skull.

Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people.

The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.

It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.

The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn about us.

Every action and decision we take – or don't – ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples.

You can use a lot of different technologies to create something that doesn't really have a lot of value.

To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.

With the revolution in information technology, with the revolution in transport technologies, I think just geography has lost its all significance.

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.

Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million?

Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.

Technology is technology. Technology doesn't have a, it is not good or bad. Technologies are tools.

In any conflict between humanity and technology, humanity will win.

If history is any indication, we should assume that any technology that is going to have a significant impact over the next 10 years is already 10 years old!

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.

Thanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to do hasn't kept pace.

Humans are now the most numerous mammal on the planet. There are more humans than rats or mice. Humans have a huge ecological footprint, magnified by their technology.

I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects.

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