Quotes about tech
technology design brain
When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask you to accept in some corner of your brain that you might also be conceived of as a program. Jaron Lanier
technology belief artificial-intelligence
I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system than as a technology.
technology self agendas
If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.
technology soul style
Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.
technology people important
The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.
technology people trying
People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.
technology thinking new-experiences
Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.
technology expectations people
Digital technologies are setting down the new grooves of how people live, how we do business, how we do everything--and they're doing it according to the expectations of foolish utopian scenarios. We want free online experiences so badly that we are happy to not be paid for information that comes from us now or ever. That sensibility also implies that the more dominant information becomes in our economy, the less most of us will be worth.
technology looks information
We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.
technology data realization
There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper.
technology humans
Humans change themselves through technology.
technology engineering information
It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.
technology artist giving
Advances in technology have opened up possibilities in the cultural realm throughout history. I'm intrigued by developments in technology - as an artist it gives me a new palette to explore. Janet Echelman
technology thinking ideas
I have very complex and complicated ideas about technology. It's such a prominent way that we communicate with each other. In ways, I think it's really positive, and in ways, I think it's really negative. Jane Levy
technology understanding calling
The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies. Ethan Zuckerman
technology african-american population
[According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population.
technology years going-away
Email is a 40-year-old technology that is not going away for very good reasons - it's the cockroach of the Internet. Jason Hirschhorn
technology inventory digital
Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves. Jason Epstein
technology four generations
We have been through four and five generations of technology since the PATRIOT Act. Carly Fiorina
technology government curves
National security is a place where the private sector could be helpful because the government is woefully behind the technology curve. But secondly, the bureaucratic processes that have been in place since 9/11 are woefully inadequate as well.
technology political-will president
As president, the first thing I will do is secure the border. It will take money, manpower, and technology - but most of all, it will take political will.
technology accepting
Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept. Jesse Eisenberg
technology humanity way
What makes the IoT a disruptive technology in the way we organize economic life is that it helps humanity reintegrate itself into the complex choreography of the biosphere, and by doing so, dramatically increases productivity without compromising the ecological relationships that govern the planet. Jeremy Rifkin
technology dna bypass
What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.
technology world enough
We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.
technology smartphones people
The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present. Glen Hansard
technology tools faces
Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face. Frank Herbert
technology people risk
Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.
technology vcr years
By the year 2000, all Americans must be able to set the clocks on their VCRs. George H. W. Bush
technology america people
I know this about the American people: We welcome competition. We'll match our ingenuity, our energy, our experience and technology, our spirit and enterprise against anyone.
technology hair korea
As South Korea shows, active participation in international trade does not require free trade. Indeed, had South Korea pursued free trade and not promoted infant industries, it would not have become a major trading nation. It would still be exporting raw materials (e.g., tungsten ore, fish, seaweed) or low-technology, low-price products (e.g., textiles, garments, wigs made with human hair) that used to be its main export items in the 1960s. Ha-Joon Chang
technology space people
Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers - and in people's minds. Culture is space, speed, cinema, technology. This culture is authentic, if anything can be said to be authentic. Jean Baudrillard
technology silence humanity
The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity's language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its constructive faculties, the desert alone is an extension of its capacity for absence, the ideal schema of humanity's disappearance.