Quotes About Technology

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.

We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.

We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools!

The medium is the message.

First we build the tools, then they build us.

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

Our technology forces us to live mythically

All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical.

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.

I don't know why it is, but the present generation has a marvelous way of skimming around any kind of work with their hands, They'll work their brains till they haven't got any more backbone than a caterpillar, but as for manual labor, it's old-timey and out of fashion.

este país el sector que más creció en los últimos veinte años no es la tecnología, no es el software; es la desigualdad, que creció más que en ningún otro momento de nuestra historia.

I don't want to be human." Dr. Mensah said, "That's not an attitude a lot of humans are going to understand. We tend to think that because a bot or a construct looks human, its ultimate goal would be to become human." "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

Why yes, I did want to disengage the safety protocols, thanks for asking.

murderbot + actual human = awkwardness.

ART (aka Asshole Research Transport)

The HubSystem that controlled their habitat, that they were dependent on for food, shelter, filtered air, and water, was trying to kill them. And in their corner all they had was Murderbot, who just wanted everyone to shut up and leave it alone so it could watch the entertainment feed all day.

you can't put something as dumb as a hauler bot in charge of security for anything without spending even more money for expensive company-employed human supervisors. So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.

But the company would access all those recordings and data mine them for anything they could sell. No, they don't tell people that. Yes, everyone does know it.

Humans should really do more research. There were operating manuals that would have warned her not to fuck with us.

There was a big huge deal about it, and Security was all "but what if it takes over the station's systems and kills everybody" and Pin-Lee told them "if it wanted to do that it would have done it by now," which in hindsight was probably not the best response.