Quotes About Technology

But it took the Industrial Revolution for us to discover this earlier discovery.

I discovered the magic of the camera in reestablishing civil/ethical behavior as follows.

Ricordate questa massima: non sto dicendo che le tecnologie non invecchiano, ma solo che le tecnologie che tendevano a invecchiare sono già morte.

But the technology is only trivial retrospectively—not prospectively.

The world is getting less and less predictable, and we rely more and more on technologies that have errors and interactions that are harder to estimate, let alone predict.

Le processus de la découverte (ou de l'innovation, ou du progrès technologique) dépend lui-même d'un bricolage antifragile, d'une brusque prise de risques plutôt que d'une culture formelle.

I do not consider that resisting new technology is necessarily irrational: waiting for time to operate its testing might be a valid approach if one holds that we have an incomplete picture of things.

Traders were replaced by computers, for very small visible benefits and massively large risks.

While errors made by traders are confined and distributed, those made by computerized systems go wild

Scranton showed that we have been building and using jet engines in a completely trial-and-error experiential manner, without anyone truly understanding the theory. Builders

Nunca pergunte às pessoas o que elas querem, ou para onde querem ir, ou para onde pensam que deveriam ir, ou, pior ainda, o que elas pensam que desejarão amanhã. A força do empreendedor do ramo da computação Steve Jobs estava, precisamente, em desconfiar das pesquisas de mercado e dos grupos de foco — aqueles com o objetivo de perguntar às pessoas o que elas querem — e seguir sua própria imaginação.

The dream of having computers behave like humans is coming true, with the transformation, in a single generation, of humans into computers.

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free.

developers are getting the benefits others pay for.

With a little bit of luck a computer virus will wipe out all records and free people from their past mistakes.

So the longer a technology lives, the longer it can be expected to live.

La tesis central de Popper es que, para predecir los sucesos históricos, es necesario predecir la innovación tecnológica, algo en sí mismo fundamentalmente impredecible.

We have always been crazy but weren't skilled enough to destroy the world. Now we can.

as he can carry a library on his device and "optimize" his time between golf outings.

Today's materials allow us to avoid such constraint.

they were of no use to anyone outside IBM.

Why is it that science comes and goes and technologies remain stable?

As equipment and machinery have become more sophisticated, the knowledge and skill required to operate them has risen accordingly.

Like it or not, the factories of New Haven, Hartford, Boston, Beverly, and Haverhill were the country's future, and Washington was all for it. —