Quotes about technology
technology liberty want
If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that? Matt Drudge
technology self support
Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture and storage, and not to the defence of deniers and cranks. Nicholas Stern
technology computer-literacy should
It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate. Nicholas Negroponte
technology mp3 long
It doesn’t matter how long we’ve used something; all that matters is how awesome the thing replacing it is. MP3s and automobiles happen to be really, really awesome, whereas ebooks—at least so far—are fairly limited in their awesomeness. John Green
technology people community
Decades of providing technology in growing volume and at decreasing costs have driven great gains for developing nations, communities and people worldwide, but there is still much to do. Paul Otellini
technology discovery humanity
In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even Pasteur remain irrelevant to much of humanity. Paul Farmer
technology guy use
I'm more of a science head, so I was like how would a guy use - if there were ghosts - technology to bring them back? Paul Feig
technology dna tools
That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Paul Berg
technology drug disease
Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies. Paul Berg
technology ideas impact
Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society. Paul Berg
technology computer internet
The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer effects. Marshall McLuhan
technology shapes patterns
Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also patterns of communal interdependence. Marshall McLuhan
technology media body
The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics. Marshall McLuhan
technology patterns action
The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action. Marshall McLuhan
technology years age
My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant. Marshall McLuhan
technology robots involved
We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies. Marshall McLuhan
technology humans
The most human thing about us is our technology. Marshall McLuhan
technology psychics play
It is always the psychic and social grounds, brought into play by each medium or technology, that readjust the balance of the hemispheres and of human sensibilities into equilibrium with those grounds. Marshall McLuhan
technology long anxiety
When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result. Marshall McLuhan
technology produce bias
Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users. Marshall McLuhan
technology media messages
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. Marshall McLuhan
technology force
Our technology forces us to live mythically Marshall McLuhan
technology media framework
It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame. Marshall McLuhan
technology media age
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.' Marshall McLuhan
technology impact messages
The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times. Marshall McLuhan
technology men hula
The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop. Marshall McLuhan
technology alphabet detachment
The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement. Marshall McLuhan
technology life-is about-family
Life is about family and technology. Mark Goddard
technology
Don't let technology dictate your life. Maria Ressa
technology entrepreneur use
We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths. Paul Saffo
technology opportunity years
It turns out it takes 30 years for a new idea to seep into the culture. Technology does not drive change. It is our collective response to the options and opportunities presented by technology that drives change. Paul Saffo
technology cities process
Can the vast technology beneath our gaze be anything but a representation? Any optical artifact... The city panorama is a theoretical (ie visual) simulacrum: in short, a picture, of which the preconditions for feasibility are forgetfulness and a misunderstanding of processes. Michel De Certeau
technology fundamentals debate
What intrigued me most was not the technology as such but the questions about the human goods, the fundamental human values and virtues that are raised by debates over biotechnology. Michael Sandel