Quotes About Technology

His fingerprints are all over today's technologies. Photoelectric cells and lasers, nuclear power and fiber optics, space travel, and even semiconductors all trace back to his theories.

Google, playing off googol, the term for the number 1 followed by a hundred zeros.

The dark side of our new information technology is not that it allows government repression of free speech but just the opposite: it permits anyone to spread, with little risk of being held accountable, any idea, conspiracy, lie, hatred, scam, or scheme, with the result that societies become less civil and governable.

You make an invention you think is great, and so you want it to be used by many people as soon as possible.

Someday we may consider it unethical not to use germline editing to alleviate human suffering.

two historic innovations that caused them to revolutionize how we live: microchips allowed computers to become small enough to be personal appliances, and packet-switched networks allowed them to be connected as nodes on a web.

The main lesson of thirty-five years of AI research is that the hard problems are easy and the easy problems are hard," according to Steven Pinker, the Harvard cognitive scientist.

Queremos que, cuando abras la caja de un iPhone o de un iPad, la experiencia táctil condicione cómo vas a percibir el dispositivo, señaló.

I do not know how the Third World War will be fought," he answered, "but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth—rocks.

singularity, a term that von Neumann coined and the futurist Ray Kurzweil and the science fiction writer Vernor Vinge popularized, which is sometimes used to describe the moment when computers are not only smarter than humans but also can design themselves to be even supersmarter, and will thus no longer need us mortals.

Licklider helped chart that course back in 1960 in his paper "Man-Computer Symbiosis," which proclaimed: "Human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and the resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know today.

The Bush-Licklider approach was given a friendly interface by Engelbart, who in 1968 demonstrated a networked computer system with an intuitive graphical display and a mouse.

He told her, somewhat emotionally, that he wished she could have seen him when he was managing a Mediterranean restaurant north of San José. That was a wonderful place, he said. All of the successful technology people used to come there. Even Steve Jobs. (......) Mona was able to refrain from blurting out, Steve Jobs is your son!

more than a minute. The wilderness decade was over. Finally Jobs waved for silence and cut to the heart of the challenge. "We've got to get the spark back," he said. "The Mac didn't progress much in ten years. So Windows caught up. So we have to come up with an OS that's even better.

These revolutions arose from the discovery, beginning just over a century ago, of the three fundamental kernels of our existence: the atom, the bit, and the gene.

We now have the power to control our genetic future, which is awesome and terrifying.

Steve Jobs built on the work of Alan Kay, who built on Doug Engelbart, who built on J. C. R. Licklider and Vannevar Bush.

the microchip, the computer, and the internet. When these three innovations were combined, the digital revolution was born.

Silicon Valley The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s.

In the mid-1800s, Newtonian mechanics was joined by another great advance. The English experimenter Michael Faraday (1791–1867), the self-taught son of a blacksmith, discovered the properties of electrical and magnetic fields. He showed that an electric current produced magnetism, and then he showed that a changing magnetic field could produce an electric current. When a magnet is moved near a wire loop, or vice versa, an electric current is produced.

Berners-Lee built the Web on top of the Internet.

Durante los primeros años después de Pearl Harbor, los Laboratorios Bell se hicieron cargo de casi mil proyectos distintos para el ejército, desde equipos de radio para tanques hasta sistemas de comunicaciones para pilotos que llevaban máscaras de oxígeno, pasando por máquinas de cifrado para codificar mensajes secretos.

He named these "CRISPR-associated," or Cas, enzymes.

It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough—that it's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing.