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We are grounded in the reality of the day and grounded in the technology of the day. Just saying 'turn the taps off' is not acceptable to humanity.

— Rex Tillerson

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.

— John Naisbitt

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

— Chinua Achebe

I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.

— Sebastian Thrun

My ability to be emotive and cry... I think I'm so fearful of tapping that that I won't know how to turn it off.

— Andrew Breitbart

If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social setting and just can't do it. I do it for them. I don't take prisoners.

— Neal Boortz

You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.

— Biz Stone

I'd like to be able to tap with my action this low without buzzing.

— Stanley Jordan

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

— John Stuart Mill

While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.

— Padmasree Warrior

✗Opposing Perspectives

The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet.

— Marc Andreessen