Isaac Asimov Quotes About Technology
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.
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The further a device is removed from human control, the more authentically mechanical it seems, and the whole trend in technology has been to devise machines that are less and less under direct human control and more and more under their own apparent will.
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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