Quotes about tech
technology thinking people
I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think we're closer when in fact we're not seeing each other, we're not connecting. Jason Reitman
technology our-generation generations
The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up. Jason Mraz
technology thinking people
When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines, I don't think anybody thought the banks were against technology because they didn't want their ATM machines lifted. Hilary Rosen
technology innovation energy
I am going to bring back infrastructure jobs, advanced manufacturing jobs, clean renewable energy jobs, innovation, technology, small business. Hillary Clinton
technology policy
Let's face it, the U.S. government is woefully, woefully behind in all of its policies that affect the use of technology. Hillary Clinton
technology way may
Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves Herbert Simon
technology thinking people
There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes. Herbert Simon
technology europe people
The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people in the camps, ecological disasters. Evgeny Morozov
technology thinking design
For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use. Evgeny Morozov
technology may information
Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims. Evgeny Morozov
technology ipods chinese
iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy. Evgeny Morozov
technology thinking criticism
When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this is very unhealthy. Evgeny Morozov
technology government degrees
Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology. Evgeny Morozov
technology thinking would-be
If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense. Evgeny Morozov
technology thinking
I don't think love for technology itself breeds change. Evgeny Morozov
technology pay belief
Technological defeatism - a belief that, since a given technology is here to stay, there's nothing we can do about it other than get on with it and simply adjust our norms - is a persistent feature of social thought about technology. We'll come to pay for it very dearly. Evgeny Morozov
technology people political
It's true that virtually all new technologies do trigger what sociologists would call 'moral panics,' that there are a lot of people who are concerned with the possible political and social consequences, and that this has been true throughout the ages. Evgeny Morozov
technology decision political
The message I'm trying to send is that technology is political, and that many decisions that look like decisions about technology actually are not at all about technology - they are about politics, and they need to be scrutinized as closely as we would scrutinize decisions about politics. Evgeny Morozov
technology political valleys
The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the political interests of Washington. Evgeny Morozov
technology human-nature humans
Technology changes all the time; human nature hardly ever, Evgeny Morozov
technology worry important
I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes. Evgeny Morozov
technology phones cells
People have to understand that they can reject technology. They can turn off their cell phone. They can stop looking at their e-mail. It's there if they want it. It's not being forced on them. Esther Dyson
technology may firsts
It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online. Esther Dyson
technology perfect world
Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect. Esther Dyson
technology people needs
People need to understand that the technology is for them. It's not to them. It's not over them. People still sometimes want to be led a little too much. Esther Dyson
technology culture journalism
We were badly held back not just by the technology, but by the culture of journalism. Ezra Klein
technology ideas needs
Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting. Graham McTavish
technology air trying
What I’m trying to show is that the main event today is not seen by those of us that are living it… So it’s not the effect of [technology], it is that everything exists with-in [its milieu]. It's not that we use technology, we live technology. Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence. Godfrey Reggio
technology air breathe
Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence. Godfrey Reggio
technology politics etc
It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life. Godfrey Reggio
technology politics tools
All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now. Godfrey Reggio
technology light trying
What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology. Godfrey Reggio
technology
Technology is not neutral. Godfrey Reggio