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“Technology expands human potential but tests our wisdom. Progress without ethics risks creating tools that control rather than empower. Responsible innovation ensures that advancements serve life and humanity.”

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“Human nature as we know it is, nevertheless, malleable and manageable. It may be radically modified as a result of advances in bio-, molecular, nano- and computational technologies. It will therefore be essential to establish a clear code of ethics regulating the use of these technologies sooner rather than later.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan (1959) philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist, and author

Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.17

“Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

The Objectivist February 1971

“If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment.”

Michael Harrington book The Other America

Source: The Other America (1962), Appendix, sct. 1

“Technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Abe of Japan at Hiroshima Peace Memorial at Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, Japan (May 27, 2016) https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/27/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-abe-japan-hiroshima-peace <br class="br">2016 <br class="br">Context: There are many sites around the world that chronicle this war -- memorials that tell stories of courage and heroism; graves and empty camps that echo of unspeakable depravity. Yet in the image of a mushroom cloud that rose into these skies, we are most starkly reminded of humanity’s core contradiction; how the very spark that marks us as a species -- our thoughts, our imagination, our language, our tool-making, our ability to set ourselves apart from nature and bend it to our will -- those very things also give us the capacity for unmatched destruction. [... ] Science allows us to communicate across the seas and fly above the clouds; to cure disease and understand the cosmos. But those same discoveries can be turned into ever-more efficient killing machines. The wars of the modern age teach this truth. Hiroshima teaches this truth. Technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us. The scientific revolution that led to the splitting of an atom requires a moral revolution, as well.

“Strict ethical guidelines need to be developed in anticipation of significant technological and biotechnological advances in order to guarantee human dignity.”

Nayef Al-Rodhan (1959) philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist, and author

Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.29

“Transhumanism empowers people to realize the full human potential.”

Newton Lee American computer scientist

The Transhumanism Handbook, 2019

“The meaning of life for human beings is to serve one another for the survival of humanity and the advancement of civilization.”

Newton Lee American computer scientist

ACM Computers in Entertainment (Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2005)

“I am committed to using technology in my dances but not for the purpose of making a comment on technology, but rather to use it as a tool to express the human condition. I think that there are many disadvantages to using technology, it is expensive, difficult to set up and can steal the show by drawing too much attention away from the dance. I love the beauty and the simplicity of a warm body moving without frills, but I think technology is part of our common language now and to not create a relationship with it in dance seems like ignoring a vital tool for connection.”

Tami Stronach (1972) American choreographer

Interview in the Greenpoint Gazette.

“Nature has no automatically transferable wisdom to serve as the basis of human morality. Passive observation and unquestioned reverence for nature are no substitute for ethical philosophy.”

Stephen Jay Gould book An Urchin in the Storm

Source: An Urchin in the Storm (1987) "Utopia, Limited", p. 225

“Microsoft has a long history of taking a principled approach to how we live up to our mission of empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more with technology platforms and tools, while also standing up for our enduring values and ethics.”

Satya Nadella (1967) CEO of Microsoft appointed on 4 February 2014

The Verge: "Microsoft CEO plays down ICE contract in internal memo to employees" https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/20/17482500/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-ice-contract-memo (20 June 2018)

“Technology expands human potential but tests our wisdom. Progress without ethics risks creating tools that control rather than empower. Responsible innovation ensures that advancements serve life and humanity.”

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