Terence McKenna Quotes

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.

We have changed our environment more quickly than we have learned how to change ourselves.

With science, technology and globalization, man is changing the world faster than his evolution can keep up with the new dangers.

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the future, where electronic technology would shape and expand cultures and societies into a global membrane of communications.

Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.

Technology changes nothing.

We change our tools and then our tools change us.

Humans change themselves through technology.

It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called "progress" to alter our lives without attempting to control it-as if technology were an irrepressible force of nature to which we must meekly submit.

The entire human race faced a singularity when one small group discovered, ooh, technology. We can live a different way. Eventually, that spelled the death of the old way of life.

The coming of the wireless Era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.

The masses in highly industrialized countries like England, the United States, or France are largely de-Christianized. Technology, and the way of life it produces, undermines Christianity far more effectively than do violent measures.

Politicon should be applauded for recognizing the increasing impact of technology, not only on American social and economic systems but on the very structure of our system of politics.

I truly hope that we can evolve with technology, and use it for the benefit of all mankind, but history might suggest otherwise.

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

You can go overboard in how quickly you might expect new technologies to transform people's lives. But I very much believe the way software is used, the way information gets distributed, will be dramatically different within 10 years. There is fire to go with all this smoke.

Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose.

Technology's become the great prism for what's going on in the world.

It seems as though our ability to change technology happens so quickly, and our ability to evolve as creatures is still very slow.

The institutions are working better now, the banks are much more functional. At this time, 1997, there were no mobile phones! It's a whole different thing now with mobile phones: technology has created a form of regulation, because people can actually talk to each other a lot more.

We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go.

Introducing a technology is not a neutral act--it is profoundly revolutionary. If you present a new technology to the world you are effectively legislating a change in the way we all live. You are changing society, not some vague democratic process. The individuals who are driven to use that technology by the disparities of wealth and power it creates do not have a real choice in the matter. So the idea that we are giving people more freedom by developing technologies and then simply making them available is a dangerous illusion.