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
My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible. – Richard Powers
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. – Richard Powers
I think that if the novels task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life – technology and science. – Richard Powers