Quotes About Technology

you ever thought that you are not getting enough out of your digital camera, you are probably right. Many owners of new digital cameras are unaware of what their cameras are capable of doing and it's not really their fault. The fact is that all of these new-fangled cameras hit the market with a glut of expressions being used that baffled the consumer who was hungry to try out new technology. I did three years at photographic college in the early seventies and the difference between the

Xi is quite comfortable using China's huge market power and deep pockets to suck up advanced technologies from abroad and into China. The aim of achieving self-reliance in semi-conductors, batteries, and other crucially important technologies has become increasingly overt. With the hands of the state so obviously orchestrating this massive effort, it is no wonder that China is provoking a backlash in the United States and Europe.

The information paradox- that the more data we have, the stupider we become- has a social corollary, too: that the more frantically we connect, one to another, the more disconnected our relationships become.

The devices meant to simplify our lives merely create new and improved complexities.

SMS made everything negotiable: hour by hour, minute by minute. There was no such thing as a firm plan or a final schedule.

A pencil is an extension of a finger writing in the sand. But our electronic media are extensions of our brains.

Respondents had been so overwhelmed by their in-box they'd declared "e-mail bankruptcy.

Parenting in the age of mobile communication really does allow us to be there for our kids in a way never before possible.

Nobody realizes each digital photo includes EXIF data an acronym for Exchangeable Image File. Information freely available about someone and their activities was all stored there: shutter speed, exposure compensation, even whether a flash was used. A myriad of information. A snapshot of digital wonder, the picture also carried something else invaluable: the date and time the image was taken and the GPS coordinates.

Well there you have it, just like drinking and driving, if you get behind a wheel with a phone in your hand and you cause a death, then chances are you will face very serious charges.

You kids come to work and think you deserve to get paid, even though you don't work. You live on your phones, you live off your parents, while the rest of us make life easy for you by paying you to sit on your asses connected to the Internet." He

I'm having a rotten day. First I lock myself out of the house, then I rip my skirt climbing through the window, then Macy's computer eats my layaway. And now, old Noah here won't start.

Grone, please," Art said into the whistling microphone.

almost every face and every voice and scrap of language in this world rises up through a screen or wire like something coming to the surface from the bottom of a lake, or on the other side of some mirrored glass where you can't quite touch it.

I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse. Then cars became available, and their convenience, compared to horses, was undeniable.

I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines.

Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.

In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.

The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and I'm always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest.

You can find out anything you want about a car now, and especially every bit of information about the price, without relying on the dealers.

people hack into the library to rehearse hacking into bigger, more secure, and more valuable targets.

Szabo reckoned that the future of libraries was a combination of a people's university, a community hub, and an information base, happily partnered with the Internet rather than in competition with it. In practical terms, Szabo felt the library should begin offering classes and voter registration and literacy programs and story times and speaker series and homeless outreach and business services and computer access and movie rentals and e-book loans and a nice gift shop. Also, books.

By that time, the library was awe-inspiring and a little scary. People had begun to believe it was a living thing—an enormous, infinite communal brain containing all the existing knowledge in the entire world, with the potential for the sort of independent intelligence we now fear in supercomputers.