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Langdon Winner
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“What do philosophers need to know about technology? I mean, of course, philosophers who want to think and write about technology in fruitful ways. What kind of knowledge do we need to have? And how much?”
Langdon Winner (born 1944) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (presidential address delivered to the Biennial Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, March 1991)
“... the arrival of any new technology that has significant power and practical potential always brings with it a wave of visionary enthusiasm that anticipates the rise of a utopian social order. ... From the coming of the , to the introduction of the telegraph, , motion pictures, centrally generated electrical power, automobile, radio, television, nuclear power, , and the computer (to name just a few), this has been the recurring theme: celebrate! The moment of redemption is at hand.”
Langdon Winner (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ethical responsibility ... involves more than leading a decent, honest, truthful life, as important as such lives certainly remain... Our moral obligations ... must include a willingness to engage others in the difficult work of defining what the crucial choices are that confront technological society and how intelligently to confront them.”
Langdon Winner (born 1944) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Winner, L. (1990), Engineering Ethics and Political Imagination, in Paul T. Durbin (ed.), Broad and Narrow Interpretations of Philosophy of Technology, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, p. 62
“... In [the] of , spiritual and working life was divided into precise units of time, the , as a way to magnify the strength of the monks' religious devotion. This regimen gave rise to a need for devices that could measure time: hence the development of the first simple, reliable clocks.”
Langdon Winner (born 1944) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (quote from p. x of 2010 edition; 1st edition 1934)