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• For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff.

  Steve Case

  Innovation, Trying, Stuff

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• There is no telling what is going to happen in the music business in the next few years, hours, minutes, seconds. Giving artists the chance to produce and distribute their own material is great, very empowering. The technological changes that are happening so rapidly now, amongst all the opinions, are in truth, only two things, inevitable and unstoppable.

  Pauley Perrette

  Artist, Years, Technological Change

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• While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.

  Naoto Kan

  Taken, Safety, Risk

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• I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money.

  Vicente Fox

  Believe, Technological Development, Oil

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• Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Believe, Men, Belief

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• Again I want to emphasize that the study of propaganda must be conducted within the context of a technological society. Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments, and to integrate the individual into a technological world.

  Jacques Ellul

  Technology, Play, World

  "Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes" by Jacques Ellul, translated by Konrad Kellen & Jean Lerner, Vintage Books, New York, (p. xvii), 1973.

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• If man--if each one of us--abdicates his responsibilities with regard to values; if each one of us limits himself to leading a trivial existence in a technological civilization, with greater adaptation and increasing success as his sole objectives; if we do not even consider the possibility of making a stand against these determinants, then everything will happen as I have described it, and the determinates will be transformed into inevitabilities.

  Jacques Ellul

  Responsibility, Men, Civilization

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• I believe we are going to have to prepare ourselves for the difficult and patient task of outgrowing rigid and intransigent nationalism, and work slowly towards a world federation of peaceful nations. How will this be possible? Don't ask me. I don't know. But unless we develop a moral, spiritual, and political wisdom that is proportionate to our technological skill, our skill may end us.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Peace

  Thomas Merton (1995). “Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Thomas Merton in Times of Crisis”, p.102, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Can our Society meet the Challenge of a Technological Future?

  Aharon Katzir

  Challenges, Our Society

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• In the end, the fate of children depends on our ability to use technology constructively and carefully. The connection of childrenand technology is not simply a matter of seat belts, safe toys, safe air, water and food, additive-free baby foods, or improved television programming. These are all important issues, but to stop here is to forget that today's children will soon be adults. Technological decisions made today will determine, perhaps irrevocably, the kind of physical and social world we bequeath them and the kind of people they become.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Baby, Children, Fate

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. The earthly rhythms that characterize a more pastoral way of life have been shunted aside to make room for the fast track of an urbanized existence. Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Life, Past, Men

  Jeremy Rifkin (1989). “Time Wars: The Primary Conflict in Human History”, Touchstone

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• Concern for the fate of the great rivers of the earth must lead us to reflect soberly on the model of development which our society is pursuing. A purely economic and technological understanding of progress, to the extent that it fails to acknowledge its intrinsic limitations and to take into consideration the integral good of humanity, will inevitably provoke negative consequences for individuals, peoples and creation itself.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Fate, Rivers, Water

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• Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally they are relics of a bygone era of imperial colonial rule, elite privilege, and state-sanctioned plunder.

  David Korten

  Cutting, Innovation, Environmental

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• For three decades and longer we have been developing the ideas, science, and technological wherewithal to build a sustainable society. The public knows of these things only in fragments, but not as a coherent and practical agenda indeed the only practical course available. That is our fault and we should start now to put a positive agenda before the public that includes the human and economic advantages of better technology, integrated planning, coherent purposes, and foresight.

  David W. Orr

  Technology, Ideas, Environmental

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• It's funny the more technological advanced everything gets, the more like acting in your bedroom when you're a kid it is.

  Michael Sheen

  Kids, Acting, Bedroom

  "Exclusive Interview with Tron: Legacy stars Michael Sheen, James Frain, Beau Garrett and Bruce Boxleitner". Tribute Interview, www.tribute.ca. November 29, 2010.

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• I'd like to build myself a rocket ship and launch myself into space. Still waiting on the technological advances required for a DIY space flight.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Space, Waiting, Diy

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• Switzerland has no competition. It sits in the middle of Europe, it has the highest technological development, it's legally safe and the political circumstances are never going to change.

  Jean Ziegler

  Europe, Technological Development, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Based on technological research and the transformation of nature, industrialization constantly goes forward, giving proof of incessant creativity. While certain enterprises develop and are concentrated, others die or change their location. Thus new social problems are created: professional or regional unemployment, redeployment and mobility of persons, permanent adaptation of workers and disparity of conditions in the different branches of industry.

  Pope Paul VI

  Creativity, Giving, Branches

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• It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.

  Vaclav Havel

  Civilization, People, Democracy

  Vaclav Havel, John Keane (2016). “The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe”, p.105, Routledge

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• The United States builds weapons presumably secretly, and then it sells them to other countries. So the whole business of secrecy is kind of a fake issue because hardly anything technological remains a secret for very long.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Issues, Long

  "Interview with Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States". Interview with Sean Carswell and Todd Taylor, razorcake.org. October 18, 2001.

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• Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.

  Kevin Kelly

  Literature

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• In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles.... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of nature and worse, they sound religious! Yet we live and move in a sea of miracle.

  James Brown

  Religious, Moving, Sea

  James Brown (2006). “You Shall See His Glory in the Morning!”, p.37, Xulon Press

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• The whole technological revolution and evolution gives man tremendous capabilities for good, and it also gives individuals tremendous capability to carry out what result in lethal action.

  John O. Brennan

  Men, Giving, Revolution

  "Obama's Drone-Master". Interview with Reid Cherlin, www.gq.com. June 17, 2013.

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• Technology tends to fuel the imagination. People with a technological bent can get excited by sometimes the most hazardous technologies, if they think they can harness them safely.

  John Lindsay

  Technology, Thinking, People

  Source: williamlittlesociology.wordpress.com

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• Television thus illustrates the mixed blessings of technological change in American society. It is a new medium, promising extraordinary benefits: great educational potential, a broadening of experience, enrichment of daily life, entertainment for all. But it teaches children the uses of violence, offers material consumption as the answer to life's problems, sells harmful products, habituates viewers to constant stimulation, and undermines family interaction and other forms of learning such as play and reading.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Children, Educational, Reading

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