Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (1683–1706) sixth Dalai Lama of Tibet
Source: https://twitter.com/dalailama/status/1587016915838332928
“Silence, according to western and eastern tradition alike, is necessary for the emergence of persons. It is taken from us by machines that ape people. We could easily be made increasingly dependent on machines for speaking and for thinking, as we are already dependent on machines for moving.”
Silence is a Commons (1982)
Context: The issue which I propose for discussion should therefore be clear: how to counter the encroachment of new, electronic devices and systems upon commons that are more subtle and more intimate to our being than either grassland or roads — commons that are at least as valuable as silence. Silence, according to western and eastern tradition alike, is necessary for the emergence of persons. It is taken from us by machines that ape people. We could easily be made increasingly dependent on machines for speaking and for thinking, as we are already dependent on machines for moving.
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Ivan Illich (1926–2002) austrian philosopher and theologist
Silence is a Commons (1982)
Context: Machines which ape people are tending to encroach on every aspect of people's lives, and that such machines force people to behave like machines. The new electronic devices do indeed have the power to force people to "communicate" with them and with each other on the terms of the machine. Whatever structurally does not fit the logic of machines is effectively filtered from a culture dominated by their use.
The machine-like behaviour of people chained to electronics constitutes a degradation of their well-being and of their dignity which, for most people in the long run, becomes intolerable. Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed.
Yukihiro Matsumoto (1965) Japanese computer scientist
Yukihiro Matsumoto " The Philosophy of Ruby, A Conversation with Yukihiro Matsumoto, Part I http://www.artima.com/intv/ruby4.html" by Bill Venners on 2003-09-29 (Artima Developer).
Mariano Rajoy (1955) Spanish politician
8 March, 2016 <br class="br">As President, 2016 <br class="br">Source: El País http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/03/08/videos/1457457914_756232.html
John Howard Dellinger (1886–1962) American engineer
explaining why the engineer should not be viewed as a "mere tender of machines", as quoted by [Hugh Richard Slotten, Radio and television regulation, JHU Press, 2000, 080186450X, 62]
Grace Paley (1922–2007) American writer and activist
"This Is a Story about My Friend George, the Toy Inventor"
B.F. Skinner (1904–1990) American behaviorist
Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis (1969).
Source: Contingencies Of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
"Science AMA Series: Stephen Hawking AMA Answers!", reddit.com (8 October 2015) https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/3nyn5i/science_ama_series_stephen_hawking_ama_answers/cvsdmkv/; also quoted in "Stephen Hawking Says We Should Really Be Scared Of Capitalism, Not Robots" Huffington Post (8 October 2015) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/stephen-hawking-capitalism-robots_us_5616c20ce4b0dbb8000d9f15
“First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then …? Then you serve machines.”
John Brunner book Stand on Zanzibar
continuity (14) "The Right Man For The Job"
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)