Technological Dominance Quotes

We are not the technology. It should be our - you know, our slave, the technology. But it's rapidly becoming our master in many areas, I think.

Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He has constructed a complicated social machine to administer the technical machine he built. The more powerful and gigantic the forces are which he unleashes, the more powerless he feels himself as a human being. He is owned by his creations, and has lost ownership of 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.

In almost every technology area that we're ahead in, we're ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers.

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.

Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine.

There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling; so that, unless we can dominate the mischief, we are really the worse off instead of the better.

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.

We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.

I'm not against the virtual world; it's fascinating, but I don't like the way they try to impose it on us. It's a thing imposed by rich countries.

Man's conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billions upon billions of men. There neither is nor can be any simple increase of power on Man's side. Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.

The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us

Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?

The U.S. can use its control over the dollar and the global financial system to shut down any bank or bank account in the world. It can use its control over Apple and Google to remove apps from the App Store and Google Play.

The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control

The computers are in control. We just live in their world.

The liberating force of technology the instrumentalization of things turns into ... the instrumentalization of man.

So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it.

When I left Apple, it had $2 billion of cash. It was the most profitable computer company in the world - not just personal computers - and Apple was the number one selling computer.

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

We have come more and more under the dominance of mechanics and sacrificed living humanity to the dead rhythm of the machine without most of us even being conscious of the monstrosity of the procedure. Hence we frequently deal with such matters with indifference and in cold blood as if we handled dead things and not the destinies of men.

... as the world rapidly becomes a civilization of machines, the masters of machines will increasingly be the ones in control of the world.

We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it stop using bridges not built by nature.... No electric light bulbs, no engines, no atomic energy, no calculating machines, no anaesthetics-back to the jungle.