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Topic·Downsides of technology✕clear

Philosophical literature

Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they could have no difficulty in exterminating one another to the last man. They know this, and hence comes a large part of their current unrest, their unhappiness and their mood of anxiety.

Sigmund Freud

Civilization and Its Discontents · 1930

★ 4.5

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Neil Postman

Amusing Ourselves to Death · 1984

★ 3.6

Nobel Prize Lecture · Speech

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

Christian Louis Lange

1921

★ 3.5

Novel

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Max Frisch

Homo Faber · 1957

★ 3.5

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

No, not again. I...why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam? I swear to God, one of these days, I just kick this piece of shit out the window!

Samir

Office Space · 1999

★ 1.9

Essay

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

Havelock Ellis

1922

★ 1.8

Philosophical literature

Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it.

Martin Heidegger

1954

★ 1.1

Essay

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

Douglas Adams

2001

★ 1.0

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