Bruno Latour Quotes

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

I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.

The kids of today have to be better than us. We must strive to create tools adequate for human beings that come with other things that are, at least, different from those we used to have.

We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.

Everything has changed in recent decades - the economy, technology, cultural attitudes, the demographics of the workforce, the role of women in society and the structure of the American family. It's about time our laws caught up. We watch 'Modern Family' on television, but we're still living by 'Leave It To Beaver' rules.

As in biomedical science, pioneering industrial inventions have not been mothered by necessity. Rather, inventions for which there was no commercial use only later became the commercial airplanes, xerography and lasers on which modern society depends.

The frontier is not merely a dramatic imagery but a very real process, indeed the basic socio-technical process that informs the experience of certain people and countries. As a process, it is dynamic and essentially progressive, although fraught with problems of its own, as is every other dimension of human life.

We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.

People want development, modern thinking. They want to encourage and support research in agriculture and other fields.

We live in a technical society.

Technology changes nothing.

The Six Faces of the future are: Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical.

Spin-off technologies are changing the culture. Even if you don't become an engineer you could be a poet, a journalist, a lawyer, but you will be thinking innovation and your actions within society, who you vote for, what you value, all become a participant in an innovation economy.

They say rock is dead. Andy [Warhol] said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive? Only technology. We're in the era of technology.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

Today's innovation is tomorrow's tradition.

If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.

I'm by no means convinced that capitalism and the development of technology has made anarchism easier.

Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. We know now what we could never have known before - that we now have the option for all humanity to make it successfully on this planet in this lifetime. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.

Our relationship with nature has changed radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.

I believe engineers will save the world.

The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.

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

In the 21st century, culture is power.

Maybe we have enough technology to save the planet but it is not enough because the people are not ready.