David Wong Quotes

I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing.

While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.

Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology.

I don't think technology is viable unless the person applying it has something to say.

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.

Sometimes an ethnographic inquiry will lead to new ways to use an existing technology or will generate new technologies.

Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.

The weekends are really important to me; the use of technology is really important to me.

It's reasonable to say that certain things we understand should perhaps have limits on how they're used and how certain technologies are deployed. That's very much what we should do as a society.

Every time there's a new tool, whether it's Internet or cell phones or anything else, all these things can be used for good or evil. Technology is neutral; it depends on how it's used.

The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

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.

I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do to one another through technology. Facebook's reduction of people to predictively modeled profiles and investment banking's convolution of the marketplace into an algorithmic battleground were not the choices of machines.

The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.

If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for better or worse, as it is in our nature to do.

If you don’t use a technology, you will never understand it.

Technology remains a tool: you can have the best tool in the world, but if you have nothing to say, it will remain an empty experience.

Technology is usually fairly neutral. It’s like a hammer, which can be used to build a house or to destroy someone’s home. The hammer doesn’t care. It is almost always up to us to determine whether the technology is good or bad.

[Internet] is kind of like a hammer. The technology itself doesn't determine how its used. It depends on the social, cultural and economic context in which the technology is made available.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

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.

The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.