"And given the critical role played by tool use in human evolution,...we must understand technology as natural and sacred, not alien and profane."
"...understand technology as a public good - a way to achieve broadly agreed upon societal goals, whether for improved health or cleaner air."
"Humans have long been cocreators of the environment they inhabit. Any proposal to fix environmental problems by turning it away from technology risks worsening them by attempting to deny the ongoing coevolution of humans and nature."
"The solution to the unintended consequences of modernity is, and has always been, more modernity - just as the solution to the unintended consequences of our technologies has always been more technology. The Y2K computer bug was fixed by better computer programming, not by going back to typewriters. The ozone-hole crisis was averted, not by an end to air-conditioning, but rather by more advanced, less environmentally harmful technologies."
"Would we like a planet with wild primates, old-growth forests, a living ocean, and modest rather than extreme temperature increases? Of course we would...Only continued modernization and technological innovation can make such a world possible."
"...understand technology as a public good - a way to achieve broadly agreed upon societal goals, whether for improved health or cleaner air."
"Humans have long been cocreators of the environment they inhabit. Any proposal to fix environmental problems by turning it away from technology risks worsening them by attempting to deny the ongoing coevolution of humans and nature."
"The solution to the unintended consequences of modernity is, and has always been, more modernity - just as the solution to the unintended consequences of our technologies has always been more technology. The Y2K computer bug was fixed by better computer programming, not by going back to typewriters. The ozone-hole crisis was averted, not by an end to air-conditioning, but rather by more advanced, less environmentally harmful technologies."
"Would we like a planet with wild primates, old-growth forests, a living ocean, and modest rather than extreme temperature increases? Of course we would...Only continued modernization and technological innovation can make such a world possible."