Quotes About Technology

There has been this slightly naive and perhaps arrogant view that technology can completely reinvent the political system and the way that government and politics works, which is ridiculous.

There's definitely something about the impact of social media in terms of people being able to go from slightly angry with each other to 'fight' very quickly.

Literally every single sliver of technology that makes the iPhone a smartphone instead of a stupidphone - internet, GPS, touchscreen, battery, hard drive, voice recognition - was developed by researchers on the government payroll.

The Wii is fun, but nothing feels all that accurate or precise. I don't want to play an action game with controls that sloppy.

The publishing world has been very slow to adapt to the digital world.

I'm not a big texter anyway. I'm really slow at it and so I try to avoid it to avoid embarrassment, you know what I mean?

Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.

I don't follow anything online. I am rather slow on that side.

Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.

I think it was wrong to take the decision to slow F1 down. It was much better in my day, when it was already a lot safer than it had been in the '70s and '80s, but you could still drive crazy fast.

I'm hoping they slow down a little bit with technology, because I'm just trying to keep up.

GPS is expensive because it is a very slow communication channel - you need to communicate with three or four satellites for an extended duration at 50 bits per second.

I don't use Facebook or Twitter, and I email once in a blue moon, as I'm a rather slow typist and prefer to pick up the phone and hear a voice.

Technology has enabled an environment where information is constantly fed to us on a real-time basis. You can't slow the feed of information, nor would you want to, but you can control and organize your consumption.

Conflating thought experiments with reality could slow the deployment of AVs that are reliably safer than human drivers.

Before we had the Internet, we would either call or write to our friends, one at a time, and keep up with their lives. It was a slow process and took a lot of effort and time to learn about each other.

I do as much debugging as possible on the Mac, but I occasionally must debug problems in the PC world, which is significantly slower.

Since I started driving in F1 in 2006-07, the cars have got slower and easier to drive.

I don't understand the concept of always trying to make F1 go slower and slower and slower and have less and less power.

The product cycle for the Oculus Rift will be between the rapid six-month cycle of cell-phones and the slower seven-year cycle of consoles. It's rare to see a phone not coming out every year.

In a slower economy, companies look for more value. The cloud provides this. So does Big Data.

Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

We use a curtain, so we don't use a net, so there's nothing sea life can get entangled with. And also, the system moves very slowly. It moves around 4 inches per second on average. So really, the chances of sea life being harmed by this are very minimal.

I don't know if it's a consequence of 'Black Mirror,' but I am slowly becoming more and more technophobic.