Robert Heilbroner Quotes about Technology

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In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.

In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.

Robert Heilbroner

Technology, Men, Long

"The Future As History". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter III, part 10, The Mastery of Technology, p. 161, 1960.

There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in technology; no natural death to be counted on to stop an economic change that ripped up ancestral estates or stirred up class discontent.

Robert Heilbroner

Simple, Technology, Class

"The Future As History". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter I, Part 6, The Inevitability of Progress, p. 31, 1960.

Karl Marx did not call for an opposition to the forces of history. On the contrary he accepted all of them, the drive of technology, the revolutionizing effects of democratic striving, even the vagaries of capitalism, as being indeed the carriers of a brighter future.

Robert Heilbroner

Technology, Accepted, Strive

"The Future As History". Book by obert Heilbroner, Chapter I, Part 8, The Marxian Blow, p. 41, 1960.