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It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life. -- Godfrey Reggio
Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept. -- Jesse Eisenberg
People see technology as something that will ruin society and culture, but I've always embraced technology. -- Chelsea Peretti
If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole. -- Arthur Holly Compton
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. -- Carl Sagan
Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider. -- Mitch Kapor
Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society. -- Paul Berg
Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a 'living' document. -- Al Franken
I only want to work with transparent ideas and accessible technologies that 'spotlight' the individual's role in society through creativity. I try to live an open-source life. -- Chris Jordan
Our technologised society is becoming opaque. As technology becomes more ubiquitous and our relationship with digital devices ever more seamless, our technical infrastructure seems to be increasingly intangible. -- Honor Harger
I joined the Aspen Institute, which is a terrific nonpartisan center. They have a wonderful effort that focuses on the impact of communications technology on society and our economy. -- Julius Genachowski
It's reasonable to say that certain things we understand should perhaps have limits on how they're used and how certain technologies are deployed. That's very much what we should do as a society. -- Rodney Brooks
Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers. -- Tad Williams
The only way you get economic progress, real standards of living moving higher, is to have the savings of the society continuously invested in the cutting-edge technologies. And those technologies which are obsolescent get dropped out. -- Alan Greenspan
My father taught us that to thrive, excellence in technology, quality, and customer service along with cost competitiveness is a prerequisite. His contribution to business, the economy, and society at large can never be underscored enough. -- Kumar Mangalam Birla
A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology. -- Robert Trout
Research into manned spaceflight is shifting from low-Earth orbit to destinations much further away, like Mars and the asteroid belt. But society will have to invent many new technologies before it can plausibly send people to those distances. -- Andy Weir
We're building what I call 'software apartheid.' We're in the process of creating a divided society: those who can use technology on one side, and those who can't on the other. And it happens to divide neatly along economic lines. -- Alan Cooper
My privacy concerns have to do with the world, other people, technology intruding upon us - what Talmudic scholars once called 'the unwanted gaze.' Here I see major issues and concerns as society evolves, and I've written often on the subject. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local. -- Jose Padilha
Technology is society made durable. -- Bruno Latour
Technology shapes society and society shapes technology. -- Robert Winthrop White
If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole. -- Arthur Holly Compton
The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle. -- Tom Shadyac
It wasn't science and technology that cause a slow progress, but collective knowledge of the society and market demands. -- Toba Beta
Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society. -- Peter Thiel
The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle. -- Tom Shadyac
Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on -- Kevin Kelly
We need to walk into the future, no matter how unnerving, with open eyes if society is to keep pace with technology. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet. -- Hugh Hefner
While corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance in technology is an opening for them to further restrict its users. -- Richard Stallman
Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms. -- Colin McGinn
There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions . -- Peter Drucker
Witchcraft had once been widely used before cursed by the society. I see today the society presumes technology will have a different treatment. -- Toba Beta
The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping. -- John Naisbitt
I doubt that pornography has been good for the advancement of society, but I suspect itâ??s done wonders for the advancement of computer technology. -- Chuck Klosterman
Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state -- Iain Banks
Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state. -- Iain Banks
The biggest challenge for cyborgs is to be socially accepted. Society needs to accept that there are people who wish to use technology as part of the body. -- Neil Harbisson
There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses. -- Andrew Vachss
The research carried out in the area of language technology is of utmost importance for the consolidation of Portuguese as a language of global communication in the information society. -- Pedro Passos Coelho
The only technology that helps to create a plethora of business and employment opportunity while promoting the green environment, is serving good for the society and, therefore, the sustainability. -- Anuj

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