Affection Quote by Wendell Berry

The widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in retrospect only those…

— Johannes Grenzfurthner

The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy —…

— Wendell Berry

Based on technological research and the transformation of nature, industrialization constantly goes forward, giving proof of incessant creativity. While certain enterprises develop and are…

— Pope Paul VI

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

... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.

— Guy Debord

When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously…

— Peter L. Berger

“inventions have eliminated so much of distance and time; for better, for worse, we are now each of us part of the surge and…

— Vera Brittain

While the comforts of modern civilization and technological success or economic success seem at the moment quite fulfilling, I can assure you that all…

— Frederick Lenz

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production…

— Emily Greene Balch

The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together.

— John Zerzan

I like to think there is something deep in our own world of reality that will create a dynamic balance between technology and human…

— Kenzo Tange

Technologies and specific vendors may come and go, but massive cultural transformations and new kinds of relationships? Those don't go away.

— Clara Shih