It turns out that the greatly underestimated downside of technological progress is a fractured world. — Isabelle Kocher 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
“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
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
“There's little value in advancing technology if our consciousness, compassion, conversation and cooperation is regressing.” — Rasheed Ogunlaru 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
“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
Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as… — Kim Campbell Copy Share Image
By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding… — Mark Krikorian Copy Share Image
[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty? — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and… — Lars Feld Copy Share Image
I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
In the past, we've always come up with new jobs for humans to do and so it's always benefitted us, technological progress,… — Gemma Chan Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
The debt austerity would not be problems if we had technological progress. If you doubled the debt in the U.S., and the… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Some people think it's a law that when productivity goes up, everybody benefits. There is no economic law that says technological progress… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem.… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
I'm in favor of free trade, but I think if you had to make a choice between having technological progress versus free… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“Advances in technology can be empowering, progressive and enriching. History has shown this across civilisations and societies. But it has also shown,… — Rasheed Ogunlaru 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
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
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
“[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
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
“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
“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
“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
“Thanks to technological progress, Big Brother can now be almost as omnipresent as God.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. — Albert Einstein 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 has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress. — Wynton Marsalis 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
“In terms of technological progress, the public is slower than focus group.” — Toba Beta 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