Jason Silva Quotes

If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.

We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history.

Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.

In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.

Technology has become such a big part of our humanity. We have the Internet on 24 hours a day, even when we're sleeping.

You can't think of technology as separate from all of our human drama anymore.

Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us.

Everything is so tech now; everyone is so connected that way.

Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the computer. That lets us use our brain power.

Technology is not destiny.

Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life.

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities.

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.

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

Technology is an interesting subject, people thinking: how much good, and how much bad, does it inherently carry?

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.