Jean-Michel Jarre 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.

Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.

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

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

We are all living in a techno-dystopian fantasy, the Internet-connected portals we rely on rendering the world in all its granular detail and absurdity like Borges's 'Aleph.'

As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.

In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

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.

I am totally anti-technology.

There are so many classic Big Brother warning books: the Internet is a horrible, controlling thing, as if it has a consciousness or political agenda.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

We wring our hands over the miscarriages of technology and take its benefactions for granted

You can have Google or you can have privacy but you can’t have both.

Surveillance is just getting too easy right now. And this is only because of technology..

The Great Firewall of China and the unrestricted surveillance by the National Security Agency illustrate a tendency for the state to assert its interests at the expense of individuals.

A movie like 'Transcendence' may be pertinent in its political reverberations of all computer data held in a cloud and monitored by the NSA, but it also rails against the tools its makers so artfully employ.

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

Privacy won't survive the present trajectory of technology - and with the sense of being perpetually watched, humans will behave more cautiously, less subversively. Our ideas about the competitive marketplace are at risk.

People everywhere face the threat of control by government and technology.

When you have tools with which to stalk everyone all the time, the most seemingly aloof person wins.

I log on and there are so many cookies embedded in my computer - it's like they know what I need before I do.

It is the nature of government and of technology to establish control.

I'm so tired of cyberpunk that says using machines to make your life better makes you less human.

We don't want our government building files on what people think about their government.