Quotes about tech
technology yield water
In the food case in particular, one of the technologies that could help there - genetic technologies that could create better crops with higher yields and less need for water and fertilizer - is tremendously feared. Very little of that fear is scientifically grounded. Ramez Naam
technology levels way
Often we need to use policy to level the playing field, or to be sure that a technology is managed in a responsible way. Ramez Naam
technology liquor-stores dollars
I’ve never argued against any technology being used when you have an imminent threat, an active crime going on. If someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and fifty dollars in cash, I don’t care if a drone kills him or a policeman kills him. Rand Paul
technology suffering benefits
The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering. Ralph Merkle
technology decision looks
If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy. Ralph Merkle
technology suffering quality
If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering. Ralph Merkle
technology land cost
A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available. Ralph Merkle
technology way musician
I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers. Eric Avery
technology challenges signatures
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technology space difficult
It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again. James Chanos
technology rooms technique
Human life as a whole is not inundated by technique. It has room for activities that are not rationally or systematically ordered. But the collision between spontaneous activities and technique is catastrophic for the spontaneous activities. Jacques Ellul
technology use world
What we are witnessing at the moment is a rearrangement of the world in an intermediate stage; the change is not in the use of a natural force but in the application of technique to all spheres of life. Jacques Ellul
technology order civilization
The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence...The individual, in order to make use of technical instruments, no longer needs to know about his civilization. Jacques Ellul
technique individual servant
The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself. Jacques Ellul
technology order civilization
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. Jacques Ellul
technology play world
Again I want to emphasize that the study of propaganda must be conducted within the context of a technological society. Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments, and to integrate the individual into a technological world. Jacques Ellul
technology tools use
The way we use technology is completely wasteful. We duplicate many vacuum cleaners, tools; In the future we will make the best of equipment and make it available to everyone. Jacque Fresco
technology development evolution
When biological technology becomes further advanced, human beings as we know them, will become a modified species. If we as human beings fail to include the possibility of this development in our overall, social evolution we will witness the decline of our species Jacque Fresco
technology decision firsts
Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples. Jacque Fresco
technology debt world
Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt. Jacque Fresco
technology paradise-on-earth ends
We have the technology to build a global paradise on earth, and at the same time, we have the power to end life as we know it. I am a futurist. I cannot predict the actual future - only what it can be if we manage the earth and its resources intelligently. Jacque Fresco
technology people achievement
If technology does not liberate all people for the pursuit of higher aspirations in human achievement, then all its technical potential will be meaningless. Jacque Fresco
technology innovation advent
With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad. Henry Rollins
technology age modern
It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship. Henry A. Wallace
technology world ends
The world is coming to an end in 1950. Henry Adams
technology people needs
We need to educate young people to deal with new modes of education that are emerging with the new electronic technologies and we need to educate them to not only learn how to critically read this ubiquitous screen culture but also how to be cultural producers. Henry Giroux
technology forever film
Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever. Hedy Lamarr
technology people crime
I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people. Patricia Cornwell
technology people shy
What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people. Philip Zimbardo
technology years months
Changes that used to take place in 50 years now happen in a handful of years . . . or even months. And how we deal with that changing technology explains almost everything. Paul Zane Pilzer
technology thinking phones
Nobody thinks about technical issues anymore because cameras or camera phones take care of that automatically. On the other hand, you still have the option of controlling every technical aspect. It's the most accessible, democratic medium available in the world. Martin Parr
technology space innovation
All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation. Martin Rees
technology errors design
In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design computer viruses, to trigger some kind of disaster. Indeed, catastrophe could arise simply from technical misadventure - error rather than terror. Martin Rees