Any powerful technology can be abused.
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“Any powerful technology can be abused.”
— K. Eric Drexler · Abuse
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“Any powerful technology can be abused.”
“Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.”
“My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.”
“It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits.”
“But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I think there's every reason to believe things can settle out in a situation that is recognizably better than the one we're stuck in today.”
“I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.”
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“For a number of years I was relentlessly pursued by 10 to 15 men, almost daily. Spat at, verbally abused.”
“I challenge the Government to come clean on the cost of Brexit. The reason they can't look us in the eye, it's because they know this will leave us worse off and with less control. It's a gross abuse of civil service impartiality.”
“You can't abuse your voice by yelling and screaming.”
“My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.”
“I am disturbed by how states abuse laws on Internet access. I am concerned that surveillance programmes are becoming too aggressive. I understand that national security and criminal activity may justify some exceptional and narrowly-tailored use of surveillance. But that is all the more reason to safeguard human rights and fundamental freedoms.”
“Digital power is every bit as likely to be abused as physical power, but is often more insidious because it is often wielded in the background until its results manifest themselves in the offline world.”