Technology isn’t what makes us “post-human” or “transhuman, ” as some writers and scholars have recently suggested. It’s what makes us human. Technology is in our nature. Through our tools we give our dreams form. We bring them into the world. The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning. Nicholas Carr
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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Bell Hooks
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Bertrand Russell
A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the...
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Erich Fromm
There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky. But they don't have to!...
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
More Quotes By Nicholas Carr
[Patricia Greenfield] concluded that “every medium develops some cognitive skills at the expense of others.” Our growing use of the Net and other screen-based technologies has led to the “widespread and sophisticated development of visual-spatial skills.” We can, for example, rotate objects in our minds...
To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.
Some of the test subjects were given cards that had both words printed in full, like this: Hot: ColdOthers used cards that showed only the first letter of the second word, like this: Hot: CThe people who used the cards with the missing letters performed...
We become, neurologically, what we think."(33)
Their words also make it a lot easier for people to justify that shift -- to convince themselves that surfing the Web is a suitable, even superior, substitute for deep reading and other forms of calm and attentive thought. In arguing that books are archaic...
