
„Technologie muß man nicht bekämpfen, sondern beherrschen.“
— Wau Holland deutscher Journalist und Computer-Aktivist 1951 - 2001
Zitiert in Werner Heine: Die Hacker. Von der Lust, in fremden Netzen zu Wildern. Reinbek bei Hamburg 1985. S. 14.
Exactly the same technology can be used for good and for evil. It is as if there were a God who said to us, “I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you.”
55 min 20 sec
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), Who Speaks for Earth? [Episode 13]
Kontext: Since this series' maiden voyage, the impossible has come to pass: Mighty walls that maintained insuperable ideological differences have come tumbling down; deadly enemies have embraced and begun to work together. The imperative to cherish the Earth and protect the global environment that sustains all of us has become widely accepted, and we've begun, finally, the process of reducing the obscene number of weapons of mass destruction. Perhaps we have, after all, decided to choose life. But we still have light years to go to ensure that choice. Even after the summits and the ceremonies and the treaties, there are still some 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world — and it would require the detonation of only a tiny fraction of them to produce a nuclear winter, the predicted global climatic catastrophe that would result from the smoke and the dust lifted into the atmosphere by burning cities and petroleum facilities.
The world scientific community has begun to sound the alarm about the grave dangers posed by depleting the protective ozone shield and by greenhouse warming, and again we're taking some mitigating steps, but again those steps are too small and too slow. The discovery that such a thing as nuclear winter was really possible evolved out of the studies of Martian dust storms. The surface of Mars, fried by ultraviolet light, is also a reminder of why it's important to keep our ozone layer intact. The runaway greenhouse effect on Venus is a valuable reminder that we must take the increasing greenhouse effect on Earth seriously.
Important lessons about our environment have come from spacecraft missions to the planets. By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has spent in sending ships to other worlds. It is our fate to live during one of the most perilous and, at the same time, one of the most hopeful chapters in human history.
Our science and our technology have posed us a profound question. Will we learn to use these tools with wisdom and foresight before it's too late? Will we see our species safely through this difficult passage so that our children and grandchildren will continue the great journey of discovery still deeper into the mysteries of the Cosmos? That same rocket and nuclear and computer technology that sends our ships past the farthest known planet can also be used to destroy our global civilization. Exactly the same technology can be used for good and for evil. It is as if there were a God who said to us, “I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you.”
„Technologie muß man nicht bekämpfen, sondern beherrschen.“
— Wau Holland deutscher Journalist und Computer-Aktivist 1951 - 2001
Zitiert in Werner Heine: Die Hacker. Von der Lust, in fremden Netzen zu Wildern. Reinbek bei Hamburg 1985. S. 14.
„Technologie ist alles, was wir haben, obwohl wir eigentlich nur etwas wollen, das funktioniert.“
— Douglas Adams britischer Schriftsteller 1952 - 2001
„Ich würde all meine Technologie für einen Nachmittag mit Sokrates eintauschen.“
— Steve Jobs US-amerikanischer Unternehmer, Mitbegründer von Apple Computer 1955 - 2011
Original englisch: "I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates." - in: The Classroom Of The Future. Newsweek 28. Oct 2001 thedailybeast.com/newsweek http://archive.is/20130104221536/www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2001/10/28/the-classroom-of-the-future.html
„Wir müssen mit einem Kundenerlebnis beginnen und uns dann zurückarbeiten zur Technologie.“
— Steve Jobs US-amerikanischer Unternehmer, Mitbegründer von Apple Computer 1955 - 2011
„Echter Fortschritt macht Technologie für alle verfügbar.“
— Henry Ford Gründer des Automobilherstellers Ford Motor Company 1863 - 1947
„Die Technologie erschließt das angeborene Mitgefühl, das wir für unsere Mitmenschen haben.“
— Bill Gates US-amerikanischer Unternehmer, Programmierer und Mäzen 1955
„Jede hinreichend fortgeschrittene Technologie ist von Magie nicht mehr zu unterscheiden.“
— Arthur C. Clarke britischer Science-Fiction-Schriftsteller 1917 - 2008
Clarkes Drittes Gesetz aus Profiles of the Future - zitiert von Andreas Weber in: Biokapital. Die Versöhnung von Ökonomie, Natur und Menschlichkeit, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3827007925, Seite 57.
Original engl.: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Profiles of the future: an inquiry into the limits of the possible (revised edition 1973). Seite 36
Variante: Jede hinreichend fortschrittliche Technologie ist von Magie nicht zu unterscheiden
„Die Menschheit erwirbt aus den falschen Gründen die richtige Technologie.“
— Richard Buckminster Fuller US-amerikanischer Wissenschaftler, Architekt, Konstrukteur, Designer und Schriftsteller 1895 - 1983
— Oscar Wilde, buch De Profundis
De Profundis
Original engl.: "The gods are strange, and punish us for what is good and humane in us as much as for what is evil and perverse."
De Profundis - Epistola: In Carcere Et Vinculis
— Muhammad Yunus bangladeschischer Wirtschaftswissenschaftler 1940
heise-online http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Digital-Life-Design-Technologie-kann-alles-loesen-914522.html,»Digital, Life, Design: Technologie kann alles lösen«
„Man hat gewöhnlich nicht zwischen Gut und Böse, sondern zwischen zwei Übeln zu wählen.“
— George Orwell britischer Schriftsteller, Essayist und Journalist 1903 - 1950
„Es sieht aus wie von einem anderen Planeten. Ein guter Planet. Ein Planet mit besseren Designern.“
— Steve Jobs US-amerikanischer Unternehmer, Mitbegründer von Apple Computer 1955 - 2011