Quotes About Technology

I wonder if – as I tumble towards the waves – I'll have time to get the iPhone out, hit Facebook and change my status to 'Dead'.

Whatever; if there's one thing I can't stand it's machines that talk back: SILENCE!

Pollution, corruption, economic problems—there would be enough reason to fear for developing countries even if the coming tech disruption weren't expected.

In 2018, it's still too soon to know whether the tech revolution will kill more jobs than it creates.

Another factor that's likely to exacerbate inequality: next-generation automation. The technological revolution in the workplace has only just begun. A 2017 study published by the Institute for Spatial Economic Analysis found that nearly every major American city will see half of its current jobs replaced by robots by 2035.

Hard as it was to work toward nuclear reductions, it will be much tougher and more complicated to create a new global public health system, reinvent the way energy is produced and delivered, manage the massive fallout from climate change, and ensure that new technologies don't destroy our common future.

Perhaps, after all, the right man was better than the right machine.

It's about machines like me and people like you and our future together…the sadness that's to come. It will happen. With improvements over time…we'll surpass you…and outlast you…even as we love you.

What people queued the entire weekend for became, six months later, as interesting as the socks on their feet. What happened to the cognition-enhancing helmets, the speaking fridges with a sense of smell? Gone the way of the mouse pad, the Filofax, the electric carving knife, the fondue set. The future kept arriving. Our bright new toys began to rust before we could get them home, and life went on much as before.

My prejudice was that any machine that could not tell you by its very functioning how it should be used was not worth its keep.

intent on her phone, reading, tapping, frowning in the contemporary manner.

How liberating to discover in the modern age that he, a city-dweller, an indoors man who lived by the keyboard and screen, could be tracked and ravaged and be an entire meal, a source of nourishment to others.

The future kept arriving. Our bright new toys began to rust before we could get them home, and life went on much as before.

Biology is destiny, and destiny is digital, and in this case binary. It was bleakly simple. No one exclaims at the moment of one's dazzling coming-out, It's a person! Instead: It's a girl, It's a boy. Pink or blue.

I despised even more the agglomeration of routines and learning algorithms that could burrow into my life, like a tropical river worm, and make choices on my behalf.

Raised bookless on computer toys, sugar, fat and smacks to the head.

could tell you similar stories of machine sadness.

Los comentaristas que sugerían que la victoria del ordenador acabaría con el go se equivocaban. Tras su quinta derrota, el viejo maestro de go, auxiliado por un asistente, se puso de pie despacio, hizo una reverencia de cabeza hacia el ordenador portátil y lo felicitó con voz temblorosa. Dijo: El jinete en su montura no acabó con el atletismo. Corremos por placer.

Our age could devise a passable replica of a human mind, but there was no one in our neighbourhood to fix a sash window, though a few had tried.

We have recorded the sound the wind makes on Mars, but we cannot listen to one another.…

Attosecond?" Gaston asked. "I'm guessing it's a very, very small fraction of a second," I said. "One quintillionth of a second," George said, without raising his head from his reader. Jack pondered him. "Have you started memorizing random crap again to amuse yourself?" "No, I'm connected to the wireless," George said. "I googled it.

Have you ever heard of Arthur C. Clarke's third law of prediction? It states that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Take a smart phone and hand it to an ancient Roman. He'll think it's a magic window into the world of the gods and that the Beyoncé video playing on it is showing him Venus.

the Law of Bronwyn had proven true again and again, so often that it was simply accepted. "Once a species is introduced to interstellar spaceflight, it will advance technologically but not socially

When I was a young man in the 1970s, tech firms were scattered across the developed world. Since then, America has come to dominate tech almost totally.