Technology Quotes

"Technology amplifies human nature; it makes us more of what we already are."

"Technology is neutral; it is we who give it meaning."

"Technology extends our reach but cannot replace the intimacy of face-to-face encounter."

"Technology extends human capability but also constrains our freedom."

"Technology is the extension of culture's will to dominate nature."

"Technology extends the reach of our delusions."

"Technology changes how we relate to one another."

"Technology is neither good nor evil."

"Technology mediates our relationship to reality; we must remain conscious of this mediation."

"Technology is a tool for human liberation or oppression."

"Technology amplifies both human virtues and vices."

"Television creates a false intimacy with distant others."

"The mass media is the ventriloquist; we are the dummy."

"Technology amplifies our tendency to external direction."

"Technology changes how we perceive reality."

"Technology is a tool that can liberate or enslave us, depending on how we use it."

"Technology without humanity is barbarism."

"Mass ornament is the aesthetic correlate of the rationalized work process in modern industry."

"Distraction is the dominant mode of attention in contemporary mass culture."

"Modern consciousness is shaped more by images than by direct experience of reality."

"We are shaped by the media we consume more than we shape it."

"Modern life presents itself as natural what is actually the product of design."

"Distraction is not merely a personal failing but a systematic feature of mass culture."

"Images shape reality more profoundly than reality shapes images."

"Mass culture manufactures consent through the pleasures of distraction."

"Distraction is not the opposite of attention but its modern historical form."

"Mass culture promises satisfaction while manufacturing ever-new forms of desire."

"The language of advertising is the language of power."

"Technology is an instrument of domination, not liberation."

"We are the ghosts haunting the machine we have created."