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If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effec

If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them. – Ralph Merkle

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If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy. – Ralph Merkle

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Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences. – Ralph Merkle

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Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet todays surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem. – Ralph Merkle

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Technology is very seductive, and it is certainly changing the way things are designed and made and taught. The problem is when technology has seduced you away from thinking about things as deeply as you should. – Arthur Ganson

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What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work. – Richard Powers

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I have a vision thats about technology that empowers consumers over institutions. – Michael K. Powell

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In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills needed for the new industrialised world. – Lucy Powell

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