Tech Consequences Quotes

While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.

I don't think we have wrapped our heads around how much technology has allowed the manipulation of individuals and democracies.

In any discussion of technology, you hear the same argument: You can't turn the clock back and you can't put the genie back in the bottle. Maybe not. But there are steps we can take to limit the social harm caused by this industry, just like we do with others.

Technologies are never neutral, and some are hurtful.

In the area of robotics and in the area of connectivity, technology is offering us things that we are vulnerable to - and we have to have a better response than a shrug.

Technology is lust removed from nature.

If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?

Technology enabled Rappler's fast growth starting in 2012, but we were also among the first victims when social media was weaponized in 2016.

I fear that we are beginning to design ourselves to suit digital models of us, and I worry about a leaching of empathy and humanity in that process.

We don't really even know how the Internet and technology are changing us, or our brains and our attention span.

I've always been interested with the idea of technology and the way technology affects our ability to communicate - our ability to have a rewarding experience with technology versus a kind of dehumanizing experience with technology.

The human race needs a time out from all this techno-magic-mischief, a period to reflect on what we've done and how we ought to behave with this stuff.