"Various threats come along with the development of information technologies. Connecting people with machines, such a cyborgization of societies, creates a new type of threats – such threats that bring us back a little bit to the Orwellian universe of Nineteen Eighty-Four, in which someone gets very strong tools to control everything. If every human being will be appropriately chipped and our nervous systems, or even our minds, will be incorporated into a global network – one can imagine that sooner or later someone would like to take these technological possibilities in order to get some unprecedented concentration of power and domination. The possibilities of direct physical control may be created, especially if we are connected to a network in a way that interferes with the structure of our nervous system – then we can imagine different possibilities of exerting direct influence. For now, this is the field of speculation."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Polish Press Agency (July 17, 2018): Polish Scientist warns against cyborgization perils.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zygmunt_Vetulani
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Zygmunt Vetulani
6 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Zygmunt Vetulani →
Related Quotes
"A man who crosses the street must be careful not to be hit by a car, even if the car is an automatic vehicle without …"
"The fact that a computer player wins a game of chess or bridge with a human does not necessarily mean that the device…"
"How does artificial intelligence refer to social relationships – for example, the functioning of one or another polit…"
"In some individual actions a very high level of simulation was achieved, e.g. in chess or Go. However, we are still v…"
"My cousin Zygmunt found a distant relative in Italy, Professor Vettolani, who works as an astrophysicist in Bologna. …"
"It would be rather pointless and confusing to retain in these books information that was incorrect or defective or in…"
"Nevertheless, this laughable hypothesis is exactly what has been adopted with the 12th and 16th c. sources of “Greek”…"
"Attributing a book to a famous early source added not only to-the authority of the book, but also to its market price…"
"“Ptolemy’s” Almagest begins (as natural for an 11th c. text) with what look like paraphrases of controversies from th…"
"So, in practice, Western history has used two standards of evidence for transmission: one ultra-lax standard of evide…"