Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In terms of technological progress, the public is slower than focus group.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold. — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Thanks to technological progress, Big Brother can now be almost as omnipresent as God.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in which… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Tomorrow there will be no division to Europe and Asia. These are old concepts that would remain only on maps. Everything will… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
Ultimately, what the tech industry really cares about is ushering in the future, but it conflates technological progress with societal progress. — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea which demands that not only a… — Rudolf Christoph Eucken Copy Share Image
Technological progress has made clean energy a profitable investment, and growing popular pressure has forced politicians to respond to the threat of… — Brian Deese Copy Share Image
There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We presumably believe that most of the technological progress over the arc of humanity to date has been good. I don't see… — Patrick Collison Copy Share Image
If you have technological progress, that will encourage more capitalist system. On the other hand, if you don't, if things are stalled,… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Dad's oil dehydrator was a contained electrostatic field, one electrode down the center, the other the container's inner wall. Principal problem was… — John Cage Copy Share Image
“...apart from the seemingly magical internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953...The wonders portrayed… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“He believed that technological progress was a disease in human society. The explosive development of technology was analogous to the growth of… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“Some have argued that the current era of rapid technological progress serves labor, and some have argued that it serves capital. What… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The news today about "Atomic bombs" is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Futurologists have been multiplying like flies since the day Herman Kahn made Cassandra's profession "scientific," yet somehow not one of them has… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
“We have too much technological progress, life is too hectic, and our society has only one goal: to invent still more technological… — Henri Charrière Copy Share Image
If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint,… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“[The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic, and… — Ralph Linton Copy Share Image
You can't just stop technological progress. Even if one country stops researching artificial intelligence, some other countries will continue to do it.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Here in Alpha City, we have a common saying: “What we call ‘sky’ is merely a figment of our narrative.” The most… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“Letter to the tech giants: When fame and abundance kiss somebody’s feet before that person is wise enough, he or she is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses.” — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
“Arise my friend, Awake my friend and work for humanity, not to make it sophisticated, but to make it peaceful first.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Progress is not alone a matter of technology.” ―C.Drying, Contingent Upon Magenta” — C.Drying Copy Share Image
“Technology and innovation may aid, speed, support and even prolong the human race - but only love and compassion can save it.” — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
“Technological progress has a very different agenda. It doesn’t want to listen to our inner voices. It wants to control them.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
It turns out that the greatly underestimated downside of technological progress is a fractured world. — Isabelle Kocher Copy Share Image
“There's little value in advancing technology if our consciousness, compassion, conversation and cooperation is regressing.” — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
I’m serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a time out from technological progress as we know it, — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the indoctrinated notion that reducing existence to the essentials is for half-wits and losers in this golden age of technological… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image