Quotes About Technology

After a while I decided he was calculating camera angles and placement, studying pedestrian traffic patterns, gauging penetration zones, and it became obvious that he didn't see people at all, that I could smile and wave at him every time he looked my way and he wouldn't notice me. I would be just another data point, part of a flow pattern, a consumer unit.

Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.

In order not to think of the world which science describes, man gets drunk on technology.

The so highly acclaimed "dominion of man over nature" turned out to be merely an enormous capability to kill.

The bourgeoisie, in the feudal framework, settles in small urban centers where it becomes structured and civilized. With the break-up of this framework, the bourgeoisie spreads across all of society, invents the nationalist state, rationalist technology, anonymous urban agglomerations, industrial society, the mass man, and finally the process in which society wavers between the despotism of the mob and the despotism of the expert.

Modern man fears technology's destructive capacity, when it is its constructive capacity that threatens him.

Natural disasters devastate a region less effectively than the alliance of greed and technology.

Just as dangerous as believing the desirable to be possible is believing the possible to be desirable. Sentimental utopias and automatisms of technology.

The liberation promised by every invention ends with the growing submission of the man who adopts it to the man who manufactures it.

Perception of reality, today, dies crushed between modern work and modern entertainment.

Man no longer knows how to invent anything that does not serve to kill better or to make the world a little more vulgar.

The man who invents a new machine invents for humanity a new concatenation of new forms of servitude.

Totalitarian society is the common name for the social species whose scientific name is industrial society. The embryo today allows us to foresee the adult animal's deformity.

La técnica no cumple los viejos sueños del hombre, sino los remeda con sorna.

Between the dictatorship of technology and the technology of dictatorship, man no longer finds a crack through which he can slip away.

To hope that the growing vulnerability of a world increasingly integrated by technology will not demand a total despotism is mere foolishness.

Even the enemy of technology denounces its public, but trivial, outrages more than its invisible, but disastrous, destructions. (As if contemporary man's feverish migration, for instance, were disturbing because of traffic accidents.)

Man today does not live in space and time. But in geometry and chronometers.

La técnica induce insidiosamente a convertir sus categorías reguladoras de la acción en categorías constitutivas de la realidad.

The technification of the world blunts one's sensibility and does not refine one's senses.

What is threatening about a technological device is that it can be used by someone who lacks the intellectual capacity of the man who invented it.

Technology would present fewer dangers if manipulating it were not so simple for the imbecile and so profitable for the thief.

Porn and gaming have become the bread and circuses of the internet.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true.