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Joesph Weizenbaum
(8 Jan 1923 - 5 Mar 2008)
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Science Quotes by Joesph Weizenbaum (7 quotes)
Man is not a machine, ... although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus. .... No other organism, and certainly no computer, can be made to confront genuine human problems in human terms. ... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the future, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns.
— Joesph Weizenbaum
Now what we have to fear is that inherently human problems—for example, social and political problems—will increasingly be turned over to computers for solutions. And because computers cannot, in principle, ask value laden questions. The most important questions will never be asked.
— Joesph Weizenbaum
The computer—logical, linear, rule-governed—encourages a certain kind of thought process. Call it scientific rationality. The introduction of the computer has driven man to an ever more highly rationalist view of his society, and an ever more mechanistic view of himself.
— Joesph Weizenbaum
The dependence on computers is merely the most recent—and the most extreme—example of how man relies on technology in order to escape the burden of acting as an independent agent. It helps him avoid the task of giving meaning to his life, of deciding and pursuing what is truly valuable.
— Joesph Weizenbaum
The problems facing schools and educators everywhere are personal, political, financial and spiritual. These will not be solved merely by putting more terminals and video screens into the classroom.
— Joesph Weizenbaum
We are now, as a society, close to the point of trusting only modern science to give reliable knowledge of the world. I think this is terribly dangerous.
— Joesph Weizenbaum
What’s needed more than anything else, I believe, is an energetic program of technological detoxification. We must admit that we are intoxicated with our science and technology and that we tire deeply committed to a Faustian bargain that is rapidly killing us spiritually and may eventually kill us all physically.
— Joesph Weizenbaum
See also:
- 8 Jan - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Weizenbaum's birth.
- Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, by Joseph Weizenbaum. - book suggestion.