Barry Commoner Quotes

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.

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.

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

Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.

No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.

We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.

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.

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.

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.

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

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us; that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.

The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

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

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

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

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

'The Victorian Internet' is a must read for anyone interested in the history of technology and in the cycles of hype, boom, and bust that seem to only quicken with each new wave of innovation. Highly recommended.

Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.