Billy Burke Quotes

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

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.

It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.

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

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

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

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.'

It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years!

I basically look at how exponential emerging technological changes runs counter-intuitive to the way our linear brains make projections about change, and so we don't realize how fast the future is coming.

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

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

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

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity.

I have mixed feelings about how fast things are changing as a result of technology. There's no denying that through technology there are amazing things being created that help people with diseases or help people's dreams come true. But there's also this obsession. Social media is the most dangerous of them all.

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

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

I am totally anti-technology.

You can graph human evolution, which is mostly a straight line, but we do get better and change over time, and you can graph technological evolution, which is a line that's going straight up. They are going to intersect each other at some point, and that's happening now.

Science, which has transformed the material world, gives man the power of transforming himself.

The liberating force of scientific knowledge is objectively expressed in the great achievements of technology. Whoever possesses technology has power of the earth and men. As a result of this, hitherto unknown forms of inequality have arisen between those who possess knowledge and those who are simple users of technology.

Luddism is no longer with us, but today we seem to be overtaken by its opposite, the inevitability of technological change coupled with the blind belief in capitalism's ability to provide us with all we need.

Asians love technology. They see it as the path to a good life. This is not so in Europe where there is much skepticism about technology—maybe because of Nazi Germany and its use of technology.

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

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations