Technology Quotes

From the printing press to AI, these quotes explore humanity's relationship with its own inventions.

12000 quotes

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"We are all hybrid beings, part human and part machine."
Callon, Michel
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"The virtual and the real are increasingly difficult to distinguish in contemporary life."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The technology you use reveals something about your values."
Law, John
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"Technology is best when it brings people together."
Law, John
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"We are all cyborgs now, hybrid beings caught between nature and technology."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"Objects are not just passive vessels; they are active participants in making the world."
Latour, Bruno
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"Technology is not autonomous; it is enacted through human and non-human collectives."
Latour, Bruno
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"The network is the fundamental unit of existence."
Latour, Bruno
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"We live in a world of proliferating hybrids."
Latour, Bruno
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"Networks are the substance of the world, not mere descriptions of it."
Latour, Bruno
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"Objects are condensed networks of relations."
Latour, Bruno
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"Objects are not just symbols; they are actants in their own right."
Latour, Bruno
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"Technologies are never neutral. They enact particular ways of being and knowing."
Mol, Annemarie
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"We are experiencing a resonance catastrophe - we can reach everything but connect with nothing."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"Technology promises to save us time but enslaves us instead."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"Modern technology amplifies our anxieties even as it promises relief."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"We are always already cyborgs, hybrids of organism and machine, biology and technology."
Haraway, Donna
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"We are not post-human; we are becoming-with other beings."
Haraway, Donna
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"The cyborg has no origin story; it explodes the logic of genesis."
Haraway, Donna
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"The cyborg represents the possibility of thinking beyond dualism."
Haraway, Donna
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"Technology cannot be separated from the social contexts in which it emerges."
Callon, Michel
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"Normativity is embedded in the very fabric of technical systems."
Callon, Michel
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"Technical systems are moral projects embedded with values and interests."
Callon, Michel
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"Devices and mechanisms can embody and enforce particular forms of order."
Callon, Michel
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"Meaning and materiality are inseparable aspects of technical systems."
Callon, Michel
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"Technology serves or enslaves depending on use."
Law, John
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"Technology is neutral; intention matters."
Law, John
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"Technology must serve humanity."
hooks, bell
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"Technology is never neutral; it carries values and assumptions within its design"
Latour, Bruno
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"We must learn to read the scripts written into our material objects"
Latour, Bruno