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Quotes About Technology

The more technological a society is, the greater the security gap is.
~ Bruce Schneier
In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.
~ Theodore Kaczynski
Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.
~ Al Ries
Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.
~ Terence McKenna
In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.
~ Jack Horner
When we change the way we communicate, we change society.
~ Clay Shirky
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
~ Kenzo Tange
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
~ Noam Chomsky
We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.
~ Ray Bradbury
Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.
~ Paul Berg
All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.
~ Mario Bunge
The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged.
~ Bill Gates
I like the idea of having a paperless society.But to be paperless means you have to be so careful with your identity.
~ Michelle Singletary
It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.
~ Roy H. Williams
Fusion will be ready when society needs it.
~ Lev Artsimovich
What we have now in America is a surveillance society.
~ Nat Hentoff
There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature of our society.
~ Eric Schmidt
The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.
~ Ron Kind
I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.
~ Matthew Lesko
TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation.
~ Ann Landers
Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.
~ Richard Hamming
Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms.
~ Colin McGinn
I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.
~ Daniel Suarez
The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life.
~ Tom Robbins