Quotes about tech
technology brain groups
What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions. Nicholas A. Christakis
technology years iraq
Solar power is one of the most hopeful technologies but still produces about 0.01 percent of U.S. electricity. The U.S. allocates just $159 million for solar research per year - about what we spend in Iraq every nine hours. Nicholas D. Kristof
technology thinking average
Technology makes good DJ's better, but also allows your average person to think they're a DJ, and unfortunately there's no checks and balances about people making it a career. Neil Armstrong
technology two rocks
I like the aspect of technology. For me to spin the way I do, I would have to carry five crates of records with me everywhere I go, which in this day and age would be like two hundred extra dollars in baggage fees. All I need now is a hard drive and a computer and I can rock anywhere in the world.
technology night wind
If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale. Nathan Myhrvold
technology two feet
What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together. Mitchell Kapor
technology data-collection fire
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
technology america needs
We [American nation] can now, by virtue of new technology, actually get all the energy we need in North America without having to go to the - the Arabs or the Venezuelans or anyone else. That's why my policy starts with a very robust policy to get all that energy in North America, become energy-secure. Mitt Romney
technology sound computer
I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.
technology people isolation
With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect. Mireille Guiliano
technology men computer
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity. R. Buckminster Fuller
technology pollution resources
Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.
technology self survival
A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.
technology long pace
Technology paces industry, but there's a long lag in the process.
technology space challenges
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
technology humanity reason
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
technology genius born
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
technology agency government
From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical companies, consulting and law firms, government agencies, and even a major stock exchange. Preet Bharara
technology years culture
So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way... Poul Anderson
technology humanity understanding
The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change. Pierre Schaeffer
technology ebay firsts
eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system. Pierre Omidyar
technology dollars stopping
It seems like we're spending billions of dollars on whiz-bang technology and not enough money on human resources, which really is proven to be the most effective way of stopping terrorism. Mike Huckabee
technology phones empowering
Mobile phone technology can help to bring financial services to the 80 percent of African women who do not have a bank account and bolster the growth of the world's poorest continent. It's not just about empowering women, it's about economic growth. Unless we can make access to finance easier for women in their businesses, we will be missing out on a significant portion of growth within our economies Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
technology people enough
Maybe we have enough technology to save the planet but it is not enough because the people are not ready. Nhat Hanh
technology decision innovation
Desktop publishing was a big innovation that meant small groups or even poor societies could do their own publication without the capital investment in a major printing press. That's a big difference. Same is true of more advanced technologies - it can offer plenty of liberatory possibilities - can - but whether it does or not or whether it serves for coercion depends on socioeconomic decisions. Noam Chomsky
technology men order
Modern science and technology can relieve men of the necessity for specialized, imbecile labor. They may, in principle, provide the basis for a rational social order based on free association and democratic control, if we have the will to create it.
technology
Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology.
technology
Technology can be used that way and it can also be used in other ways.
technology doubt serious
There is little doubt that a significant part of any serious solution will require advances of technology, but that can only be part of the solution. Other major changes are necessary.
technology long enemy
Long before the technology revolution there was declassification of documents and I've spent quite a lot of time studying declassified internal documents and written a lot about them. In fact, anybody who's worked through the declassified record can see very clearly that the reason for classification is very rarely to protect the state or the society from enemies. Most of the time it is to protect the state from its citizens, so they don't know what the government is doing.
technology government enemy
Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.
technology decision individual
Technology can also be used so that private individuals will have access to the way centralized decisions are being made.
technology kind possibility
Those are possibilities for technology, which don't tend to be used, because of the way power is concentrated. There are all kinds of possibilities, including for coercion. In China, technology is used to control and coerce. Here too, to an extent, but not to that extent.