Jaan Tallinn Quotes

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

We are much better at creating complex technologies than we are at controlling them.

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

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

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Practically every technology that is ever invented is touted as being the new savior, the thing that will bring peace and goodwill to the earth, but immediately it falls into other hands who see it as the opportunity to promote the very opposite.

The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

I think that we live in techno-enthusiastic times. We celebrate our technologies because people are frightened by the world we've made.

It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

I am totally anti-technology.

We are the greatest computers in this world, but now we've created the smart phone which is smarter than us now, but we're still making dumb decisions. We have given our creations more power than we have, and that to me is dumb.

These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish.

We cannot blindly embrace the benefits of technology.

In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.

I'm definitely a techno-optimist. I think we can do amazing things. But in my experience, if a thing has great potential, there is also a risk of great downsides, so to speak. Coming from a truly, really enthusiastic 'wow decade,' we are now moving into waters where we are somewhat more cautious.

We are not the technology. It should be our - you know, our slave, the technology. But it's rapidly becoming our master in many areas, I think.

Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.

The technological revolution has the potential to liberate us or enslave us, and the road we take will depend on our politics.

The whole 'Electronica' project is about the ambiguous relationship we have with technology: on the one side, we have the world in our pocket; on the other, we are spied on constantly.

The question I want to put forward is, 'Does the technology we are developing ultimately benefit mankind?'

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