I do not like the way people use the more and more magnificent fruits of technology to their filthy deeds.
Technology is usually fairly neutral. It’s like a hammer, which can be used to build a house or to destroy someone’s home. The hammer doesn’t care. It is almost always up to us to determine whether the technology is good or bad.
There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.
Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.
The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.
You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.
With 'Hang the DJ,' I was concerned that it was more comedic and much lighter than we normally do for 'Black Mirror.'
One futuristic novel that had a huge impact on me was Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' which is kind of science fiction plus Gothic.
The whole of technology depends on a scientific background, and of course technology can be used for evil purposes. You can't blame science for that.
