Charlie Brooker Quotes

I love technology, and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused.

Technology could benefit or hurt people, so the usage of tech is the responsibility of humanity as a whole, not just the discoverer. I am a person before I'm an AI technologist.

Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.

It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask. Sometimes our choices aren't the wisest of choices, and we regret them, but they are our choices. I think it'd be wrong to think that they're automatically bad.

A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.

Any powerful technology can be abused.

Every technology that can improve the human condition could harm the human condition. Someone evil could program a robot to hurt people.

Technology should be used for better purposes, for people's overall welfare and development of state and country, instead of misusing it to win elections.

If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent

Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?

In the area of robotics and in the area of connectivity, technology is offering us things that we are vulnerable to - and we have to have a better response than a shrug.

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

Technology is not a panacea. I refuse to work on technology to track users, analyze usage patterns, watermark information, censor, detect drug use, or eavesdrop. I am not naive enough to think any of those technologies could enable a 'compromise'.

Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only saved by music from being overwhelmed by nonsense.

In recent years, we have seen technology advance at lightning speed, allowing us to accomplish lifesaving feats never imagined before. It is our responsibility to ensure that these advances are used for positive medical breakthroughs, and not allowed to restrict rights or limit access to health insurance or job opportunities.

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

I think that Google has definitely influenced my moral values and the ethics. I think when Larry Page started the company, they weren't in it for the money. They started it because they really wanted to create something that; one, they wanted, and two, they thought was going to change the world.

Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous

Like most technology, the internet has mixed effects. It's a neutral instrument.

We ought to be keeping in mind that the technology is not just hardware and machinery, it is also software. So you can think of languages of the technology and writing of the technology and the social justice of the technology in what social justice does is reduce impacts on the Earth because the most impact is from the poorest and richest people.

I doubt that pornography has been good for the advancement of society, but I suspect it’s done wonders for the advancement of computer technology.

Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives-of course we must, right? But are these good things to do? The irony is, the people who will finally answer that question will be the very ones produced by the process.

The very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm.