The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people dont know their neighbors, I dont think that technology is at fault. You dont lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding. – John Warnock
Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldnt exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people. – John Warnock
What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what peoples problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information. – John Warnock
I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that its contributed to better health care, that its contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs. – John Warnock
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. – Dennis Gabor, Innovations: Scientific, Technological and Social, 1970