Civilization Quote by Edward Bernays

Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the…

— Martin Heidegger

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an…

— Jacques Ellul

“It bears emphasizing: our traditional ways of thinking have ignored - and virtually made invisible - the relationship between people and technology.”

— Kim J. Vicente

We live in a technocratic culture. We worship at the altar of technology. Our lives are increasingly shaped by the machinations of the techies.…

— David Roochnik

There has been this slightly naive and perhaps arrogant view that technology can completely reinvent the political system and the way that government and…

— Steve Hilton

Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is…

— Gerald R. Ford

“New technology has never been an automatic feature of history. Our ancestors lived in static, zero-sum societies where success meant seizing things from others.”

— Peter Thiel

The message I'm trying to send is that technology is political, and that many decisions that look like decisions about technology actually are not…

— Evgeny Morozov

Technology has to be invisible. Transparent. Just simple.

— Martin Cooper

Technological evolution is leading to something new: a worldwide, interlocked, monolithic, technical-political web of unprecedented negative proportions

— Jerry Mander

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for…

— Bernard Baruch

I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics-though the means should at least be good enough to lead to the…

— Aminu Kano