Technology Quotes

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

12000 quotes

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"Objects gather; they are not simply gathered by human subjects."
Latour, Bruno
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"Our relationship with technology is fundamentally a relationship with time itself."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"The demand for continuous innovation prevents us from ever inhabiting what we create."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"The promise of technology was to give us time; instead, it colonizes our time."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"Technology and progress are not neutral; they reflect the values and biases of those who create them."
Davis, Angela
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"Technology amplifies our existing values, both good and destructive."
hooks, bell
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"Technology must serve human flourishing, not determine our fate."
Nussbaum, Martha
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"Technology should enhance human agency, not replace it."
Nussbaum, Martha
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"Behavioral economics has real-world applications that matter."
Thaler, Richard
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"The Google effect means we remember where information is rather than the information itself."
Kahneman, Daniel
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"Pro-innovation bias makes us overestimate the adoption and benefits of new innovations."
Kahneman, Daniel
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"Technology is not neutral; it embodies and shapes our human values."
Nussbaum, Martha
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"Technology must serve human flourishing, or it becomes a threat to our humanity."
Nussbaum, Martha
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"Technology must serve human purposes, not dominate them."
Sen, Amartya
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"Our brains are designed for a world that no longer exists."
Ariely, Dan
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"Technology is best when it brings people together."
Pollock, John
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"The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed."
Pollock, John
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"Technology is neither good nor evil; it amplifies our intentions."
Lehrer, Keith
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"Technology amplifies human intention"
Goldman, Alvin
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"Technology serves human purposes or enslaves us"
Goldman, Alvin
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"Big data is only useful if we understand what the numbers actually represent."
Gigerenzer, Gerd
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"Technology is a mirror of human intention, reflecting both brilliance and folly."
BonJour, Laurence
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"Technology without humanity is merely efficient cruelty."
BonJour, Laurence
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"Algorithms are not neutral—they embed the values of those who create them."
Gigerenzer, Gerd
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"We live in a world of risks we don't understand, made by systems we can't see."
Gigerenzer, Gerd
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"We live in an age of measurement, but not necessarily of understanding."
Gigerenzer, Gerd
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"Technology is a tool, not a master."
Williamson, Timothy
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"Technology amplifies human nature—both our virtues and our vices."
Lehrer, Keith
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"Technology amplifies both our wisdom and our folly."
BonJour, Laurence
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"Technology is neutral; only our intentions matter."
BonJour, Laurence