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• History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.

  Neil Armstrong

  Future, Space Flight, Technological Development

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• The incredible story of progress that is America has always been built by those who ask why, what if, and why not. Our schools must begin instilling that wonder in our children again so that their generation will unite around the next great project of our time, whether it be declaring America energy independent or launching the next great technological revolution.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Children, School

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• Intelligence may indeed be a benign influence creating isolated groups of philosopher-kings far apart in the heavens... On the other hand, intelligence may be a cancer of purposeless technological exploitation, sweeping across a galaxy as irresistibly as it has swept across our own planet.

  Freeman Dyson

  Kings, Cancer, Hands

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• Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technical civilization makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all over the scientific community about climate change. Many of them [scientists] agree, the end of human life on earth is assured.

  Werner Herzog

  Community, Environmental, Climate

  "Encounters at the End of the World". www.imdb.com. July 18, 2008.

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• Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball bats. We understand that technology will ruin our games, but we do not understand that it can also ruin cultures.

  Gene Logsdon

  Sports, Baseball, Technology

  Gene Logsdon (2000). “Living at Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream”, p.133, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Twitter is more a cultural than a technological change.

  Chris Sacca

  Technological Change

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• Scientific and technological "solutions" which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, Poison, Benefits

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.

  David Harvey

  Technological Change, Force, Capitalism

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• Rational order in the technological world can be as fascinating as the fetishes of a Congo witch-doctor - scientific phenomena become significant images.

  Eduardo Paolozzi

  Technology, Doctors, Order

  Eduardo Paolozzi (1971). “Eduardo Paolozzi”

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• I think it's very easy for people who are not deep in the technology itself to make generalizations, which may be a little dangerous. And we've certainly seen that recently with Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking, all saying AI is just taking off and it's going to take over the world very quickly. And the thing that they share is none of them work in this technological field.

  Rodney Brooks

  Technology, Thinking, People

  "Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humans and Robots in the Economy". Council on Foreign Relations Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Annual Lecture on Science and Technology, www.cfr.org. February 27, 2015.

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• The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem. From the stagnation of Medieval Europe to the decline and chaos in recent times on the mainland of Asia and to the catastrophes of two world wars in the twentieth century, the methods of killing people became increasingly sophisticated. Scientific and technological progress certainly does not imply that humankind as a result becomes more civilized.

  Gao Xingjian

  War, Moving, Europe

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• Indeed, through fundamental advances in bionics in this century, we will set the technological foundation for an enhanced human experience, and we will end disability.

  Hugh Herr

  Foundation, Fundamentals, Disability

  "The new bionics that let us run, climb and dance". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2014.

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• With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, Luxury, Self

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.199, Basic Books

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• The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.

  Roger Zelazny

  Hurt, Advancement, Direct

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• The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Long, Suffering, Cogs

  The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.5, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Roots, Culture, Liberation

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2008). “The Vorkosigan Companion”, p.13, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• I think the big challenge that we've got on education is making sure that from kindergarten or prekindergarten through your 14th or 15th year of school, or 16th year of school, or 20th year of school, that you are actually learning the kinds of skills that make you competitive and productive in a modern, technological economy.

  Barack Obama

  School, Thinking, Skills

  "After the Great Recession". www.nytimes.com. April 28, 2009.

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• Despite the Internet 's origin in the late 1960s as a government sponsored means of communication between the Department of Defense, private industry, and academia, it has been at its best and generated the greatest economic, social, and technological benefits since it was 'liberated' by the hordes of 'geeks' who were originally hired to run it by employers who were not themselves conversant with computers, and couldn't tell when their employees were exchanging official traffic or trading dirty jokes and recipes for marijuana brownies.

  L. Neil Smith

  Running, Communication, Dirty

  "Keep Your Filthy Hands Off The Internet". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. June 20, 2010.

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• But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.

  David Harvey

  Technological Change, Obsolescence, Rate

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• While the comforts of modern civilization and technological success or economic success seem at the moment quite fulfilling, I can assure you that all of these things are transitory and will fall away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fall, Buddhism, Civilization

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• The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of the world's major economic powers.

  John Mearsheimer

  Progress, World, Unions

  John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.219, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Technological advance often thrives in sheltered and subsidized markets, which defy free trade.

  Robert Kuttner

  Thrive, Trade, Free Trade

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.97, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Technological change is beneficial only when other jobs replace the ones lost.

  Robert Kuttner

  Jobs, Technological Change, Lost

  The Guardian Weekly, August 08, 1993.

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• The clustering of technological innovation in time and space helps explain both the uneven growth among nations and the rise and decline of hegemonic powers.

  Robert Gilpin

  Space, Innovation, Growth

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.109, Princeton University Press

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• Either Stone Age man was a technological wizard, who carefully removed his technological achievements so as not to upset his inferior progeny, or our population dwindled from a once astronomical size to the mere three billions of today.

  Heinz von Foerster

  Men, Upset, Age

  "Population Density and Growth". "Science", Vol 133, June 16, 1961.

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