Average Quote by Mary Roach

The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.

— John Stuart Mill

“But there comes a point (and this is the challenge facing modern technological Western man) when the cult of technique destroys feeling, undermines passion,…

— Rollo May

I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

— David Cronenberg

Indeed, through fundamental advances in bionics in this century, we will set the technological foundation for an enhanced human experience, and we will end…

— Hugh Herr

Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.

— Terence McKenna

“Last, but by no means least, the advance of technology has produced a human population that is far more helpless and dependent than any…

— Dmitry Orlov

The dissemination of advanced implantable technology will likely be just as ruthlessly democratic as the ailments it is destined to treat. Meaning that, someday…

— Daniel H. Wilson

People already have bionic arms and legs that work by the power of thought. And we increasingly outsource mental and communicative activities to computers.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.

— S. Jay Olshansky

The products we design are going to be ridden in, sat upon, looked at, talked into, activated, operated, or in some way used by…

— Henry Dreyfuss

“Eros is the drive for union and reproduction in the biological realm. Even in the birds and animals, we see the "desire of procreation,"…

— Rollo May

I think people who have all kinds of debilitating mobility issues will benefit from robotic augmentation. That is, even before we get into organ…

— Jason Silva