technological quotes

Ifthere istechnological advancewithout social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment.

- Michael Harrington
  The Other America: Poverty in the United States, ch.1.

The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.

- Martin Heidegger
  'The Question Concerning Technology', collected in Basic Writings (1977).

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

- (Herbert) Marshall McLuhan
The Mechanical Bride,'Magic that Changes Mood'.

Ihaveno doubtthat it ispossibletogiveanewdirectionto technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction.

- E(rnst) F(riedrich) Schumacher
  Small Is Beautiful.

It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.

- Bruce Sterling
  Opening statement to the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance,Washington DC, 29 Apr.