Human-Technology Interaction Quotes

Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways of modifying his technology. Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth.

Who are you and what breaks your heart?

We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history.

People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.

Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.

I like to think there is something deep in our own world of reality that will create a dynamic balance between technology and human existence, the relationship between which has a decisive effect on contemporary cultural forms and social structure.

If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.

People are the quintessential element in all technology... Once we recognize the inescapable human nexus of all technology our attitude toward the reliability problem is fundamentally changed.

I'm not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.

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.

We should never forget that in the smartphone, the smart part is us creators.

We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.

Maybe we need to look upon technologies and social networks as things that come out of us, not things that lead us. We can be on top of these things instead of them bein' on top of us as human beings.

Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.

We are more like vehicles, a part of our mensch machine, our man-machine. Sometimes we play the music, sometimes the music plays us, sometimes... it plays.

We're in partnership with technology, influencing each other in a dance. My loyalties are to our making and shaping technology to conform to our human values; and to confronting the hard job of figuring out what those values are, and how are we're going to get technology to do that.

I hate all electronic things that are supposed to help the human being. You don't smell, you don't hear, you don't touch anymore.

People need to understand that the technology is for them. It's not to them. It's not over them. People still sometimes want to be led a little too much.

The most human thing about us is our technology.

Technology will never last if it ignores human beings' basic instinct to express and discover through expression.

The rate of technological and human physiological change in the 20th century has been remarkable. Beyond that, a synergy between the improved technology and physiology is more than the simple addition of the two.