A Quote by K. Eric Drexler

Any powerful technology can be abused.

K. Eric Drexler

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K. Eric Drexler
American - Scientist
Born: April 25, 1955

Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and value certain perspectives and accomplishments and to subordinate others. Every technology has a philosophy, which is given expression in how the technology makes people use their minds, in how it codifies the world, in which of our senses it amplifies, in which of our emotional and intellectual tendencies it disregards.

Neil Postman

Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander... It's just an extension of humanity.

John Perry Barlow

People always think of technology as something having silicon in it. But a pencil is technology. Any language is technology. Technology is a tool we use to accomplish a particular task and when one talks about appropriate technology in developing countries, appropriate may mean anything from fire to solar electricity.

Mae Jemison

Technology today is the campfire around which we tell our stories. There's this attraction to light and to this kind of power, which is both warm and destructive. We're especially drawn to the power. Many of the images of technology are about making us more powerful, extending what we can do. Unfortunately, 95 percent of this is hype, because I think we're powerful without it.

Laurie Anderson

It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.

Charles Yu

I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.

Sebastian Thrun

I have no problem with the financial industry inviting the Trojan Horse of blockchain technology into their walled garden. Because I know how powerful the technology is.

Erik Voorhees

It's scary how effective movies can be. It's a very powerful medium that I think is sometimes abused.

Evan Peters

It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.

Nick Harkaway

Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with the right science and the right technology.

Ramez Naam

A feeling I got from working at Google was that technology could solve any problem. Yes, it's fantastic, but what I realized later was there's technology, and there's people. Google had its list ordered: Technology. People. And I think the right order is: People. Technology.

Biz Stone

I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps to fuel the economy, and any discussion of slowing its growth has to take account of economic consequences. However, it is possible for us to learn how to control our own uses of technology.

Neil Postman

It is not possible to make a LASTING compromise between technology and freedom, because technology is by far the more powerful social force and continually encroaches on freedom through REPEATED compromises.

Theodore Kaczynski

Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.

Danny Wallace

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

Thomas Jefferson

I'm numb to it now. If I'm racially abused out there, I'm abused. Nothing is going to change. I just get on with it. It shouldn't be like that but it is.

Danny Rose

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