Quotes and Sayings About Technology
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
-- Aldous Huxley -
[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.
-- Aldous Huxley -
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
-- Aldous Huxley -
This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year there is a better camera to buy and new software to download. The user never has time to become comfortable with the tool. Consequently too much of the work is merely about the technology. The HDR and QTVR fads are good examples. Instead of focusing on the subject, users obsess over RAW conversion, Photoshop plug-ins, and on and on. For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.
-- Alec Soth -
For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.
-- Alec Soth -
Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.
-- Aleksander Kwasniewski