Skip to content

When you look at the number of satellites, what they’re doing and what they represent, it is really a vision of trying to have the world in your clutches.

— Trevor Paglen

Another quote →

More quotes by Trevor Paglen

I think mass surveillance is a bad idea because a surveillance society is one in which people understand that they are constantly monitored.

I would argue that racism, for example, is a feature of machine learning — it’s not a bug.

At extreme distances, there is essentially no such thing as depth of field.

The world is constantly changing, and I feel like my job is to try to see how it is changing.

I don’t feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.

All Trevor Paglen quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Trevor Paglen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.