Quotes About Technology

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

Parantham finally realized that selecting a star on the map enabled a sub-menu with the unassuming option "Go to star". Choosing this did not change the map's viewpoint or magnification; rather, it caused the map to inquire politely, "Are you sure you wish to travel to this star?

Simulated consciousness" was as oxymoronic as "simulated addition.

If the technology improves sufficiently, the environmental impact of the wealthiest Copy could end up being less than that of the most ascetic living human. Who'll have the high moral ground, then? We'll be the most ecologically sound people on the planet.

How do you know which parts of the world are you, in the polises?' 'Are there citizens in Konishi who eat music?' 'Is not having a body like falling all the time, without moving?

Simulated consciousness" was as oxymoronic as "simulated addition.

I look up at her. "Let's not make a big deal of this. It's time for me to become a machine.

Imagine the time, a dozen generations from now, when wave mechanics powers every machine and everyone takes it for granted. Do you really want them thinking that it fell from the sky, fully formed, when the truth is that they owe their good fortune to the most powerful engine of change in history: people arguing about science.

But what if a large part of your business consists of selling things that put people out of work. Including many of the people who actually pay for the things you're trying to sell.

No wonder most fleshers had stampeded into the polises, once they had the chance: if disease and aging weren't reason enough, there was gravity, friction, and inertia. The physical world was one vast, tangled obstacle course of pointless, arbitrary restrictions.

No one objects to the notion that every technological civilisation might undergo its own Introdus.

Fear sells better than sex and the iPhone 5 combined.

Just in case you still don't fully understand the need for a compiler, your source code is like the raw materials that your computer needs. The compiler is like a machine that converts those raw materials to a final product, a compiled program that the computer can understand.

ALPR is?" she asked. "Automated license-plate recognition," Evan said, relieved to be back on familiar turf. "Police cruisers have sensors embedded in the light bars that scan the plates of all surrounding vehicles. They can swallow numbers eight lanes across on cars going in either direction up to eighty miles per hour.

People today. You know how to work everything, but you don't know how anything works.

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

Scientists study the world as it is; engineers create the world that has never been. —THEODORE VON KÁRMÁN

the movies are most people's exposure to ideas about the future.

The universe of artifacts was a human one.

Yet how could the Empire possibly have kept itself stable, using such crude creatures as humans?

Life on earth is hard. Competition for the necessities of life is fierce. How ridiculous to believe that the law of harsh survival would not be true elsewhere, or that it would be negated by the progress of technology in an advanced civilization...

How would you react if you learned that a sad and beautiful poem that touched you deeply had been written by a computer?

The field of Western medicine has seemingly become literally nothing but medicine. Are doctors are on their way out, to be replaced by self-service pharmaceutical vending machines?