Dalai Lama Quotes

Where the world is going and what technology is leading us to in terms of the evolution of humanity is an incredibly valuable thing to understand.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

What created Silicon Valley was a culture of openness, and there is no future to Silicon Valley without it.

If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and that's becoming quite a big job.

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.

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilization. For them, such a charge is worse than that of crime.

Technology has become such a big part of our humanity. We have the Internet on 24 hours a day, even when we're sleeping.

The tools of science and technology amplified the effects of the madness of the egoic mind. So the survival of the planet began to be threatened, and with it the survival of humanity.

Science is the future of mankind.

There are dangers, but only dangers if people don't understand where technology is taking us.

The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave.

With the advent of radical and accessible technology, each one of us, for the first time in history, is creating an influential mark forever - we are all mini-digital celebrities and heroes to someone.

But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of technological material. We take in matter that has a low degree of organization; we put it through mental filters, and we extrude jewelry, gospels, space shuttles. This is what we do. We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects. All our tool making implies our belief in an ultimate tool. That tool is the flying saucer, or the soul, exteriorized in three-dimensional space.

You can't stop progress, but you can help decide what is progress and what isn't.

The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as possible, to sell the product as high as possible, and to move the wealth into fewer and fewer hands.

In diminishing the role of the worker's body in the labor process, industrial technology has also tended to diminish the importance of the worker. In creating jobs that require less human effort, industrial technology has also been used to create jobs that require less human talent. In creating jobs that demand less of the body, industrial production has also tended to create jobs that give less to the body, in terms of opportunities to accrue knowledge on the production process.

Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.

It's easy to kind of say it's the elite that's putting you down. Well, it wasn't really the elite, technology will do that.

If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain of this: for all but a vanishingly brief instant near the dawn of history, the word 'ship' will mean- 'spaceship.'

The world today is a very different one. Social media, which I use as a way of connecting with people, is something that my father never got to use. I'm not worried about defending my father's legacy. I'm very much worried about what the future holds.

The projector will soon disappear. The camera, not really. OK, it depends... it depends on change.

I believe a large part of humanity will draw appropriate lessons from what is the wave of the future in the 21st century.

The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any development in the history of the world, including the industrial revolution.

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.

It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called "progress" to alter our lives without attempting to control it-as if technology were an irrepressible force of nature to which we must meekly submit.