Jared Diamond Quotes

We are living, we have long been told, in the Information Age. Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

We live in an increasingly technological world where the issues are quite complex and based on some complicated science.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.

I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects.

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

Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps us solve and transcend problems, limitations and obstacles.

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

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.

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... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

This is a very different world. Much of it is new. What has happened is that information technology has politicized the world…It’s a world where most of the big problems spill over national boundaries.

We cannot blindly embrace the benefits of technology.

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

I wouldn't put a big trust in what people in Silicon Valley say. They may be good at manipulating ones and zeroes and writing software, but beyond that, their contribution to human progress has been pretty dismal. I'm not impressed.

I think it's the responsibility of people in tech to find solutions.

A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the political interests of Washington.

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.

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.

I think that for all of the dangers of technology spreading, I think it is more dangerous in some ways that it doesn't. My simple reason for that is we've got 7 billion people on the planet, and we have these very serious problems, and I think we don't know who's going to have the answers to the problems that are coming around the bend.

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

If you run from technology, it will chase you.