Adept Quote by Andy Clark

I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those…

— Godfrey Reggio

People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them.

— Ivan Illich

One of the great enemies of design is when systems or objects become more complex than a person - or even a team of…

— Bran Ferren

When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.

— Seth Lloyd

There is always this interesting relationship we have with technology. When we invented writing Socrates used to say it was going to rot our…

— Jason Silva

The evolution of human tools, from rocks to AI, can be seen as a trajectory of increasingly powerful effort arbitrage, where we exploit our…

— Bryan Johnson

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more…

— P. J. O'Rourke

For all the advances in tech that let us try on various guises to play around with who we are, it seems that we…

— Jenna Wortham

All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an…

— Victor Papanek

Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in…

— Clifford Stoll

One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the most…

— Fred Brooks

Technology is not about tools, it deals with how Man works.

— Peter Drucker