Community Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

“if we lose our human values by having everything mechanied, then machines will dictate our lives.”

— the Dalai Lama

“Since we crave reliable partnership and emotional reciprocity, we project human qualities onto machines and treat them as if they share our intentions. However,…

— Erik Pevernagie

“To understand the dominating role played by technics in modern civilization….one must explain the culture that was ready to use them and profit by…

— Lewis Mumford

“We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.”

— Douglas Rushkoff

“reducing human capabilities into specialized tasks that computers can be trained to conquer one by one.”

— Peter Thiel

“What a forced lifestyle our technology, our inventions imposed on our lives when we tried to live synonymously with computers; when we stepped inside…

— Katie Kacvinsky

Before information age, living standards basically were flat. Since then, they've been growing 2 percent a year were about 30 times richer. So technology,…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

“To make sense of what people do, one must share their society or form of life. Therefore machines ought to be the strangest of…

— Harry M. Collins

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do…

— Isaac Asimov

People are not machines, but in all situations where they are given the opportunity, they will act like machines.

— Ludwig von Bertalanffy

Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most…

— Steve Wozniak

“What the dominant classes hold as true tends to shape social and political practice. If the elites hold a materialism that reduces humans to…

— Nancy Pearcey