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Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander... It's just an extension of humanity. -- John Perry Barlow
The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change. -- Pierre Schaeffer
Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with. -- Steven Pinker
Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings. -- Ray Kurzweil
Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity. -- Kenzo Tange
It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges. -- Abbe Pierre
We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity. -- Diane Paulus
Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity. -- Douglas Coupland
My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate. -- Aaron Koblin
The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies. -- Ibrahim Babangida
The goal of 'Data Detectives' is to spark the imagination of students around the globe by making them think about new technologies that will impact humanity in ways similar to language and art. -- Rick Smolan
The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with. -- Steven Pinker
Once anthropology and geology had opened up the pre-recordkeeping darkness of humanity's long, slow, sustained infancy as suitable grounds for speculation, writers began trying to imagine human existence as it must have been with only stone-age technology. -- Paul Di Filippo
I think open source is an evolutionary idea for humanity, this idea of transparency. It played out for us in the technology world, but it also played out with the idea of a truth and reconciliation commission and Wikipedia. -- Megan Smith
Prometheus - trickster, rebel and hero - links the realm of the gods with the world of humanity, with which he had such close affinity. His act of stealing fire has been viewed as the foundation of all man's technologies. -- Neil MacGregor
Since the founding of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other mainstays of what technology writers have come to call 'the social Web' or 'Web 2.0,' a sizable portion of humanity has learned to be together while apart, sacrificing intimacy for control and spontaneity for predictability. -- Walter Kirn
By the time I'm 75 and I have a new hip, and my eyes are laser cleaned of cataracts, I wont think I'm a bionic man. I think that's just how technology works. The posthuman future of humanity will not announce itself; it will just creep up on us. -- John Scalzi
I think technology is us, not something we invented. I think we are more psychic now because we have cell phones and you can look and see who's calling you. When people start seeing technology as us, as humanity, our whole idea of what existence is, is going to shift. -- Ryan Trecartin
I'm no online whiz, but I'm not a Luddite, either. I love that we have these laptops and tablets and smart phones; they're awesome and convenient and all that. It's more about maintaining balance. Technology should always be a predicate of the true subject: our individual humanity, our examined lives. -- Paul Harding
Focus on humanity, not on technology ... -- Thomas Leuthard
Our technology has surpassed our humanity -- Albert Einstein
In any conflict between humanity and technology, humanity will win. -- Albert Einstein
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. -- Albert Einstein
If anything, technology has brought out the darker and more sinister side of humanity. -- Klayton
Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use. -- Reed Hastings
I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity. -- Sebastian Thrun
Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you. -- Mitchell Baker
The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. -- Eckhart Tolle
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man. -- Maya Angelou
I think we need to take a look at the technology, but not depend on it for things that require humanity. -- Lisa Ling
It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity. I hope that someday, our humanity might yet surpass our technology. -- Albert Einstein
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Where the world is going and what technology is leading us to in terms of the evolution of humanity is an incredibly valuable thing to understand. -- Tony Robbins
However advanced the technology may become, life is impossible without humanity, and that's why we need a combination of science of thinking and art of living! -- Narendra Modi
I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself, a wholly human concern. -- David Fincher
Technology is an inseparable part of humanity and for true progress to occur, the two must walk hand in hand, with neither one acting as servant to the other. -- Michael Dertouzos
With technology expanding at this ridiculous pace, bit by bit we're losing our humanity and our ability to connect with each other without having electronic media in the middle. -- Walter Trout

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