Technology and Society Quotes

The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate. It is the scientist's job to find the ways in which these laws can serve the human will. However, it is not the scientist's job to determine whether a hydrogen bomb should be constructed, whether it should be used, or how it should be used. This responsibility rests with the American people and with their chosen representatives.

There are no coincidences in 'Westworld.'

So 'Nier Automata' feels like a story about androids but no, the main theme of 'Automata' is human.

The more we expect technology to protect us from people in the same way it protects us from nature, the more we will sacrifice the very values of our society in futile attempts to achieve this security.

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.

You are an analog girl, living in a digital world.

Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.

As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading public that probably seldom goes to church.

I'm a technologist by origin and by training, but I'm focused on philanthropy.

What use could the humanities be in a digital age? University students focusing on the humanities may end up, at least in their parents' nightmares, as dog-walkers for those majoring in computer science. But, for me, the humanities are not only relevant but also give us a toolbox to think seriously about ourselves and the world.

'Black Mirror' was amazing.

I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster and better, and I'm generally a big fan of this. I just want to make sure that this technology stays subservient to people. People are the number one entity there is on this planet.

When technological advancement can go up so exponentially, I do think there's a risk of losing sight of the fact that tech should serve humanity, not the other way around.

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples.

I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and, 'What kinds of politics of reform do technological solutions smuggle through the back door?'

You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.

I think the thing that will endure about Westworld will be the questions it poses.

One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course.

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.

If women want to ensure themselves a meaningful place in the future, they need to be among those determining how the technology will be used. They need to be among those deciding whether it will be the great leveler or simply serve to worsen social divisions.

With 'Hang the DJ,' I was concerned that it was more comedic and much lighter than we normally do for 'Black Mirror.'

Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'

It seems to me that we live in dangerous times all over the world: we have the technology to remember everything but a desire to forget the troubling and to seek the safety of numbness. Fiction can do something about that.

Technologies are political; what technologies finally appear as is not something decided in a laboratory.