Quotes about Technological Slavery

Norbert Wiener

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

John Brunner

We've been slaves to our tools since the first caveman made the first knife to help him get his supper. After that there was no going back, and we built till our machines were ten million times more powerful than ourselves.
We gave ourselves cars when we might have learned to run; we made airplanes when we might have grown wings; and then the inevitable. We made a machine our God.

Jonas Salk

This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it.

Pope Paul VI

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

Martin Heidegger

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

Stephen Covey

Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.

Havelock Ellis

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

Leonard Nimoy

Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.

Technological Slavery Quotes