Steven Pinker Quotes About Technology

Quotes about: Technology

• Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

  Steven Pinker

  Reading, Technology, Perspective

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.203, Penguin

• As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred between them tends to decrease, for the simple reason that you can't kill someone and trade with him too.

  Steven Pinker

  Technology, Simple, People

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.232, Penguin

• Fiction is empathy technology.

  Steven Pinker

  Technology, Empathy, Fiction

• Education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is
  innately bad at. Children don't have to go to school to learn how to walk,
  talk, recognize objects, or remember the personalities of their friends,
  even though these tasks are much harder than reading, adding, or
  remembering dates in history. They do have to go to school to learn written
  language, arithmetic, and science, because those bodies of knowledge and
  skill were invented too recently for any species-wide knack for them to
  have evolved.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, Reading, School

  "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature". Book by Steven Pinker, 2002.

• Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

  Steven Pinker

  Technology, Humanity, Violence

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