Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.
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Arthur C. Clarke
Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.
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James Rozoff
Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.
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Sherry Turkle
We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.
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Alberto Manguel
When an inscrutable technology becomes an invisible technology, we would be wise to be concerned. At that point, the technology's assumptions and intentions have infiltrated our own desires and actions. We no longer know whether the software is aiding s or controlling us. We're behind...
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Nicholas Carr
More Quotes By Lorraine Heath
There’s no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural.
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