Top 5 Quotes by Langdon Winner

Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.

Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.

Langdon Winner

Powerful, Technology, Acting

Langdon Winner (2010). “The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology”, p.6, University of Chicago Press

In the technical realm, we repeatedly enter into a series of social contracts, the terms of which are revealed only after the signing.

Langdon Winner

Social, Contracts, Term

Langdon Winner (2010). “The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album was released.. . . . At the time I happened to be driving across country on Interstate 80. In each city where I stopped for gas or food — Laramie, Ogallala, Moline, South Bend — the melodies wafted in from some far-off transistor radio or portable hi-fi. It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever heard. For a brief while the irreparable fragmented consciousness of the West was unified, at least in the minds of the young.

Langdon Winner

Country, Civilization, Cities