Noam Chomsky Quotes

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last 300 years is only a trailer.

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

The great growling engine of change - technology.

Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

I think we built the right future. If it's a choice between the flying car or the Internet, tablets and smartphones, I'll take what we've got.

Technology is not destiny.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

You always need to be on the lookout for the next kind of great technology.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'

In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.

Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

It was a case of the technology catching up with the problem.

Technological advances have brought our nation to a point where momentous public choices are inescapable.

A new era of production has begun. It's principles of organization are as different from those of the industrial era as those of the industrial era were different from the agricultural. The cybernation revolution has been brought about by the combination of the computer and the self-regulating machine. This results in a system of almost unlimited capacity which requires progressively less human labor. Cybernation is already reorganizing the economic and social system to meet its own needs .... As machines take over production from men, they absorb an increasing proportion of resources while men who are displaced become dependent on minimal and unrelated [to their work] governmental measures—unemployment insurance, social security, welfare payments.

Luddism is no longer with us, but today we seem to be overtaken by its opposite, the inevitability of technological change coupled with the blind belief in capitalism's ability to provide us with all we need.

The computer of today is really in its infancy.

We seek ways to co-opt technological advances for progressive purposes and therefore triumph over the bureaucratic mind..