History Quote by Peter Watts

“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 advance of human technology is cummulative, but human wisdom dies with each generation.”

— Daniel R. Cobb

“There were so many forms of prehistoric technology. Of those, men dig a few which fit into current society.”

— Toba Beta

“As we distance ourselves further from the natural world, we are increasingly surrounded by and dependent on our own inventions. We become enslaved by…

— David Suzuki

“We are in a comfortable Dark Ages of the inventive mind; institutions change but little, and that by gradual evolution rather than revolution; scientific…

— Dan Simmons

“within every technological advancement lie the seeds of tyranny and slavery.”

— Michael Bunker

“Humans are busier now than they've ever been in the history of time. I love technology, but with all the advancements to make our…

— Dean Graziosi

“In our time, even the most seemingly transgressive visions of technology in everyday life invariably fall back to the familiar furniture of capital investment,…

— Adam Greenfield

“The history of social, political and technological change is inextricably bound to the history of thought.”

— Philip Stokes

“Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Technology - with all its promise and potential - has gotten so far beyond human control that its threatening the future of humankind.”

— Kim J. Vicente

“Still, history is the long process of outsourcing human ability in order to leverage more of it.”

— richard powers