Quotes about technology
technology ideas age
Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since. Neil Postman
technology technological-change ideas
Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taketh away, and not always in equal measure. A new technology sometimes creates more than it destroys. Sometimes, it destroys more than it creates. But it is never one-sided. The invention of the printing press is an excellent example. Printing fostered the modern idea of individuality but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and social integration.
technology doe culture
It is inescapable that every culture must negotiate with technology, whether it does so intelligently or not. A bargain is struck in which technology giveth and technology taketh away.
technology inevitable unpredictable
The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.
technology trying attention
I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects.
technology use may
If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.
technology media people
[While] physically traveling someplace or experiencing someplace firsthand, physically versus - which is what a lot of young people do - the experience is mitigated through technology and through social media. Marco Brambilla
technology ideas way
I've always been interested with the idea of technology and the way technology affects our ability to communicate - our ability to have a rewarding experience with technology versus a kind of dehumanizing experience with technology.
technology empowering independence
Keep building and supporting new tools, technologies, and platforms to empower independence, interoperability, and web property ownership. Marco Arment
technology games people
Technology is permeating every single thing we do... And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, we're planning for the future. Marc Morial
technology agency entrepreneur
Internet entrepreneurs are using technology at every level of their company - from a one-person agency to a small firm, the newest technological advances are interwoven throughout every aspect of Internet-based businesses. Marc Ostrofsky
technology process materials
I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies. Marc Newson
technology safety achievement
New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us. Marc Garneau
technology thinking years
I think that every technology company that's more than 20 years old will break up Marc Andreessen
technology media water
Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.
technology years adoption
Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle
technology
You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.
technology machines alive
If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are. Rodney Brooks
technology thinking people
I think it's very easy for people who are not deep in the technology itself to make generalizations, which may be a little dangerous. And we've certainly seen that recently with Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking, all saying AI is just taking off and it's going to take over the world very quickly. And the thing that they share is none of them work in this technological field.
technology two rights
Two big questions that people ask me are: if we make these robots more and more human-like, will we accept them - will they need rights eventually? And the other question people ask me is, will they want to take over?
technology years world
When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere.
technology people world
Technology has a lot to do with how the world is developing at the moment because there are very raw and pure and primal emotions that people are communicating to each other over the Internet. Robyn
technology people looks
People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought. Robyn Hitchcock
technology evil tendencies
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good. Robert M. Pirsig
technology giving mind
The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.
technology horror-genre example
I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe. Robert Englund
technology research-and-development organization
Serious research and development efforts are required to produce technologies, strategies, organizations, and trained personnel who can go into failed states, work with our allies and friends, and promote the political and economic reforms that will meet popular needs and reduce the sources of terrorism and conflict. Wesley Clark
technology class enemy
I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world. Walt Mossberg
technology epcot ideas
EPCOT will be an experimental prototype community of tomorrow that will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry. It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed, but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems. And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise. Walt Disney
technology thinking space
As for companies invested in the space - I think its important to distinguish between a good investment and a material climate change technology - you can have the first without the second, even in the "clean tech" space. Vinod Khosla
technology health-education way
The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.
technology fuel disease
Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractable—from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel of entrepreneurial energy, are the largest multipliers of resources we have to solve our many social problems.
technology stories movie-making
Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal. Tom Hanks