{"quotes":[{"text":"Electronic consciousness and the transhuman revolution renders infinite possibilities for the future as man merges with machines. This is an exhilarating time to be alive!","author":"James Scott","tags":["electronic-consciousness","future","james-scott","machines","transhuman"],"id":1800,"author_id":"James+Scott"},{"text":"Our inventions have long been ahead of us in terms of efficiency and sanity, productivity and predictability. Oh, how we’ve wished we could be manmade, too. What has been keeping us back, keeping us messy? The animal impediment, within and without. Eliminating these impediments, we will surely be catching up with our machines, resembling them more and more impeccably.","author":"Amy Leach","tags":["animal-brain","animals","automation","humanity","industry","inventions","machines","manmade","perfection","progress"],"id":5581,"author_id":"Amy+Leach"},{"text":"People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["machines","people"],"id":12895,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"},{"text":"But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers.","author":"Lewis Hyde","tags":["creativity","culture","machines","money","poetry"],"id":27348,"author_id":"Lewis+Hyde"},{"text":"Joshua Joseph has no real hatred of modern technology - he just mistrusts the effortless, textureless surfaces, and the ease with which it trains you to do things in the way most convenient to the machine. Above all, he mistrusts duplication. A rare thing becomes a commonplace thing. A skill becomes a feature. The end is more important than the means. The child of the soul gives place to a product of the system....For anything really important, Joe prefers something with a history, an item which can name the hand which assembled it and will warm to the one that deploys it. A thing of life, rather than one of the many consumer items which humans use to make more clutter; strange parasitic devices with their own little ecosystems.","author":"Nick Harkaway","tags":["industrialism","machines","moderism","technology"],"id":27500,"author_id":"Nick+Harkaway"},{"text":"The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.","author":"Sherwood Anderson","tags":["machines","modernity","nostalgia"],"id":36603,"author_id":"Sherwood+Anderson"},{"text":"It was machines that scanned the heavens, machines that probed the space between atoms, machines that asked the questions and designed to experiments to answer them. All that was left for mere meat, apparently, was navel-gazing.","author":"Peter Watts","tags":["machines","meat","questions"],"id":53729,"author_id":"Peter+Watts"},{"text":"In another thirty to fifty years, the demand for cheap labor will have produced even more machines over the employment of actual humans. And in that time frame, humans will have lost their voice, their power, all freedoms, and all worth. It is inevitable that machines will one day become the ultimate enemies of mankind. We are not evolving or progressing with our technology, only regressing. Technology is our friend today, but will be our enemy in the future.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["cheap-labor","computers","digital-age","employment","enemies","evolution","evolving","friend","future","humanity","humans","humantiy","labor","machine","machines","man","mankind","past","progressing","progression","regressing","regression","suzy-kassem","technology","wages","war","work","workforce","working"],"id":53874,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"As we begin to internalize the technological kingdoms we have built, as we progressively become more superhuman, what will differentiate us from machinery?","author":"Natasha Tsakos","tags":["automation","future","machines","robots","technology"],"id":61547,"author_id":"Natasha+Tsakos"},{"text":"Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["20th-century","adage","advertisement","alliterations","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","blog","blogging","book-writing","catch-lines","catchphrases","characters","complicated-life","conversation","creative-writing","essay","inspirational","inventions","knowledge","life","machine","machines","manpower","meetings","missile","missiles","modern-times","money","morals","motivational","movie","movie-dialogue","new-age","novel-writing","old-is-gold","old-times","peace","peace-of-mind","philosophy","power","present-times","proverbs","public-speaking","punchline","quotes","rhetoric","science","script","script-writing","scriptwriting","simplicity-in-life","social-networking","speech","speechwriting","story","tag-lines","technology","tradition","traditional","urban","war","weapons","wisdom","world-war","writing"],"id":77553,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":59,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}