Primer 20 — Technology
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The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.
— Marshall McLuhan
The more colossal technology has become, the smaller the individuals imprisoned within it, and the more suffocated and crushed by the artificial world built by their forced labour.
— George Bradford, How Deep Is Deep Ecology?
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
— Karl Marx
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows
anything about science and technology.
— Carl Sagan
Men are only as good as their technical
development allows them to be.
— George Orwell
Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes
more technology possible.
— Alvin Toffler
