Quotes About Technology

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

Medieval Technology? The Middle Ages invented, among other things, the crank, the horse collar, eyeglasses, the flying buttress, the stirrup, the windmill, the wheelbarrow, printing, firearms, paper, the canal lock, the compass, the rudder, the mechanical clock, the spinning wheel, and the treadle.

Marconi invented radio, but Ted Husing knew what to do with it.

Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.

When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It's just that in this age of almost instantaneous communication, we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.

Data data everywhere but not a thought to think.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider's web.

Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.

The medium is the message.

I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs?

Give someone a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person how to use the internet and they won't bother you for weeks.

As a robot I could have lived forever. But I tell you all today I would rather die a man, than live for all eternity as a machine.

That's science fiction shit, It's only fiction until science catches up.

The history of science and technology has traditionally privileged innovation over the transmission, transformation, and transfer of knowledge. But it was often the less spectacular knowledge that led to the most celebrated discoveries and inventions.

The last time it switched the font to Comic Sans, and if that sticks I'm killing myself right here, right now.

Butch tightened his grip on his cell and wished there were an app that let you reach through a phone and bitch slap someone.

Star Wars changed everything in the industry, from pace and storytelling, to visual effects and sound.

Eve-In the name of all that is holy...It's 2060, not 1760. Can't they figure out a better way to handle this process? Roarke-Amen

She took a small device out of her bag, slipped it into her pocket. Micro recorder? Roarke clucked his tongue. I believe that's illegal. Not to mention rude. I don't know what you're talking about. And unnecessary, he added. He turned his wrist, tapped a tiny button on the side of his watch. This one is much more efficient. I should know. I manufacture both brands. He smiled as the car stopped at the edge of a small clearing

It's Nerd World," Peabody said. "Or Geek Galaxy. I can't decide which because it's full of nerds and geeks." "It's Nerd World in the Geek Galaxy.