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"Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects."
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"While we are curling down in our comfort zone, the perverted talents of connectivity-designers drive us surreptitiously into a blind alley of addiction. If, however, we succeed in impeding mobiles' unlimited rule, we may be able to relish the fragrance of the 'moment' but also sense the vital spark and spirit of "otherness. ['Even if the world goes down, my mobile will save me']"
"When all is said and done, the invention of writing must be reckoned not only as a brilliant innovation but as a surpassing good for humanity. And assuming that we survive long enough to use their inventions wisely, I believe the same will be said of the modern Thoths and Prometheuses who are today devisingcomputers and programs at the edge of machine intelligence."
"To a man with an internet connection, every thought and every movement sounds like a tweet or status update."
"I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user."
"At the beginning of that interval a type-machine was a curiosity. The person who owned one was a curiosity, too. But now it is the other way about: the person who doesn't own one is a curiosity."
"Our television signals leave this planet and go out into space...the signals spread out from the earth in spherical waves, a little like ripples in a pond. They travel at the speed of light, 186,000 miles a second, and essentially go on forever. The better some other civilizations receivers are, the farther away they could be and still pick up our tv signals. Even we could detect a strong tv transmission from a planet going around the nearest star.' President: 'You mean everything? You mean to say all that crap on television - the car crashes, wrestling, the porno channels, the evening news?"
"Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel."
"There are as many opinions as there are experts."
"A smartphone is an addictive device which traps a soul into a lifeless planet full of lives."
"Technophillia is our natural state: we love our object and follow where they lead."
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"One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?"
"In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman."
"My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes."
"Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture."
"It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country."
"Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal."
"Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity."
"The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether."
"We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing."
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