Quotes About Technology

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

Many firms fail to see that since generally all organizations have access to the same rapidly evolving technology, competitive advantage flows not from the technology itself but rather from the agility with which organizations understand and adapt the technology to meet customers' real needs.

The latest technologies are often sexy, but beware of solutions that vendors dress up like trollops, unless you're looking for a one-night stand.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

This development dates from no earlier than the start of the 19th century, when the West's conception of its superiority shifted from its religion – Christianity – to its science. At issue here was not so much technological achievements, since the bulk of these were

The phone she left behind in its foggy balloon is just recording the empty aluminum canoe now, and one blurry corner of the little cooler. But it's listening in its muted way. What it hears is the front part of Lotte's scream. She doesn't get to finish it.

Rupert Sheldrake puts it, "The evangelists of science and technology have succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of the missionaries of Christianity.

Killing off mature ecosystems results in the loss of cultural learning among the world's ecosystem communities. Or as Albert Einstein once observed, "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-generated robots will take over our world.

We have only to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free.

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

This break is a prelude to war, which should, in light of the low level of USSR military technology and internal political and economic difficulties caused by a war, finish off Bolshevism once and for all."47

To Tom, the march of technology was equivalent to the march of civilization.

On the cover of Business Month, Gates's head would be satirically airbrushed onto a weight lifter's torso above the legend "The Silicon Bully: How Long Can Bill Gates Kick Sand in the Face of the Computer Industry?

Never mind that young Bill had a less-than-spotless past when it came to computer freebieism, had been chastised for manipulating accounts on a time-sharing system as an eighth grader and investigated by Harvard University for running up hour upon hour of academic computer time while developing that very same for-profit BASIC.

Perhaps, as with cars, there was a law of diminishing evolutionary return, and it was no longer economical to build models with ever larger engines.

Digitalur är symptomatiska för vår motsägelsefulla tidsålder. De ger oss exakt tid på nanosekunden, men ingen kontext: en oändlig följd av "Du är här"-pilar, men ingen karta.

If the great internet connects us all ... then why are so many of us becoming increasingly isolated?

Expanding on the age-old system of learning while you sleep through audio recordings, NAPS uses the exact same method as you would use for listening to any audio whilst sleeping.

People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long.