Quotes about tech
technology humanity survival
The tools of science and technology amplified the effects of the madness of the egoic mind. So the survival of the planet began to be threatened, and with it the survival of humanity. Eckhart Tolle
technology years dysfunction
Science and technology have amplified the effects of the dysfunction of the human mind in its unawakened state to such a degree that humanity, and probably the planet, would not survive for another hundred years if human consciousness remains unchanged.
technology amplification planets
We would destroy ourselves and the planet if no change happens, because of the amplification of the egoic state through science and technology.
technology dysfunction madness
The egoic madness, or dysfunction, becomes enormously amplified by the science and technology we all have developed.
technology ego use
With the egoic consciousness having become so dysfunctional, and now having at our disposal all these enormous technologies and scientific advances, if nothing changes the ego will use those things - as it already has been doing - and will amplify the technology that we now have. The scientific advances, to a large extent, will be used in the service of the ego, and they will become more and more destructive.
technology mirrors people
Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with actual people. It’s all one big endless loop. We like the mirror and the mirror likes us. To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors. Jonathan Franzen
technology giving tree
Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change completely the content. With 8 mm, a leaf on a tree will be made up of maybe four grains. So it's very impressionistic, almost like Seurat. If you switch to 16 mm, the technology gives you hundreds of grains on that leaf. Jonas Mekas
technology opportunity voice
You can get digital technology that almost is film quality, and go make little films and do everything you can to find a little understanding of your own voice and it will grow - Don't take no for an answer - Take every opportunity you can to do something. Jon Voight
technology useless
Technology. It's like science, only useless. Jon Stewart
technology thinking belief
I think the sentiment has not entirely shifted away from the belief that technology will continue to do well. But the believers are getting more and more worried about their beliefs. Kate Warne
technology trying littles
I'm hoping they slow down a little bit with technology, because I'm just trying to keep up. Kate Upton
technology space brain
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space. Richard Dawkins
technology common-sense violence
Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.
technology class pie
Even now, despite Angeline's watchfulness, she'd occasionally oscillate between random topics, like how shepherd's pie wasn't a pie at all and why it was pointless for her to take class in typing when technology would eventually develop robot companions to do it for us. Richelle Mead
technology thinking would-be
Don’t just think about the technology available today, but the technology that would be 10 times better in the future. Reshma Shetty
technology college keys
In an age of social media and content being key, it's important to change the mold where you have $100,000 to $150,000 for one video. I hired some guys that are young, just out of college, and we used some new, far-less-expensive cameras and technology to make videos. Ronnie Dunn
technology impact important
Technology does more than delight, entertain and make our lives more convenient, it's also an agent for social good. That is why it's important for tech startups to stay informed about, and make a mark on, policies that impact them. Ron Conway
technology space cartoon
apart from the seemingly magical Internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953... The wonders portrayed in 'The Jetsons,' the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass... Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down... Tyler Cowen
technology differences get-better
I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation. Trip Hawkins
technology events share
But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share.
technology cds waste
When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste. Rick Danko
technology lines way
Everything's changed. The technology is the big thing changing now, the way movies like 'Alice' or 'Avatar' are made. And technology on the other side, the audience side. Word spreads so fast now on a movie, with the Internet, and piracy is something coming down the line like in the music industry. Richard D. Zanuck
technology risk quality
Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe. Richard Curtis
technology small-objects ipods
Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space. Paola Antonelli
technology two mind
We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.
technology ideas people
Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They’re able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes into objects and ideas that people can understand.
technology negativity progress
When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution...Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress. Paul Virilio
technology aggravation industrialization
There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry. Mark Rydell
technology confusion people
Those who advocate euthanasia have capitalized on people's confusion, ambivalence and even fear about the use of modern life-prolonging technologies. Being able to choose the time and manner of one's death, without regard to what is chosen is presented as the ultimate freedom. Pope John Paul II
technology rights environmental
Technology that pollutes can also cleanse, production that amasses can also distribute justly, on condition that the ethic of respect for life and human dignity, for the rights of today's generations and those to come, prevails.
technology land skills
In our time, in particular, there exists another form of ownership which is becoming no less important than land: the possession of know-how, technology and skill. The wealth of the industrialized nations is based much more on this kind of ownership than on natural resources.
technology numbers horny
Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn. Pete Waterman
technology firsts wipe
Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first. Pete Seeger