Quotes About Technology

In a way, we can have a much easier discussion about the future of technology than we can about why a young man kills another man in a war.

For 'Star Wars' I had to develop a whole new idea about special effects to give it the kind of kinetic energy I was looking for. I did it with motion-control photography.

We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was historically an extremely personal experience.

Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.

War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.

The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.

Technical devices or processes which receive intensified investment during cold or hot wars spread through societies contagiously once their monopoly by the state has been undermined.

The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it obsolete.

Back in my era, hacking was all about messing with other hackers. It was a hacker war.

How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?

I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with Jurassic Park. But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more.

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

The reality of today from a cyber security point of view - I think some of the top people predict that the next big war is fought on cyber security.

'Star Wars' gave birth to all the computer-generated superhero films.

The front[line] of wars is increasingly non-human eyes peering down on our perceived enemies from space, guiding missiles toward unseen targets.

Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.

you can't say civilization dont advance, in every war they kill you in a new way

The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use.

Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did.

Weapons and technology may help win wars, but it is only ideas that have the power to truly change the world.

Man kept control over the machines he created, I wish God would have done the same with the man he created.