Quotes About Technology

As tecnologias digitais criam o ambiente propício para uma nova forma de bricolagem, ou "colagem livre", como Brown chama-a. Muitos podem adicionar ou transformar as criações de outros.

Cable TV was also born of a kind of piracy. When

Peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing is among the most efficient of the efficient technologies the Internet enables. Using distributed intelligence, p2p systems facilitate the easy spread of content in a way unimagined a generation ago. This

Why should it be that just when technology is most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive?

Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.

Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.

On December 17, 1903, on a windy North Carolina beach for just shy of one hundred seconds, the Wright brothers demonstrated that a heavier-than-air, self-propelled vehicle could fly. The moment was electric and its importance widely understood. Almost immediately, there was an explosion of interest in this newfound technology of manned flight, and a gaggle of innovators began to build upon it.

The obvious point of Conrad's cartoon is the weirdness of a world where guns are legal, despite the harm they can do, while VCRs (and circumvention technologies) are illegal. Flash: No one ever died from copyright circumvention. Yet the law bans circumvention technologies absolutely, despite the potential that they might do some good, but permits guns, despite the obvious and tragic harm they do.

In the case of the SF genre, the basic rule was, is, and always has been: Come up with a startling idea and set it loose in astonishing ways in a future world.

People often pulled into Scientology want to address personal problems in their life, and Scientology says we have technology that addresses these kinds of problems. Just focusing on the problems and trying to remedy them can be helpful.

And what about motor-cars?' 'So much the better,' replied the Great Authority: 'they will no longer be able to run in the streets.

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript, all ready to goose-step straight into a computer.

When you stand inside somebody's library, you get a powerful sense of who they are, and not just who they are now but who they've been. . . . It's a wonderful thing to have in a house. It's something I worry is endangered by the rise of the e-book. When you turn off an e-book, there's no map. All that's left behind is a chunk of gray plastic. ~ Lev Grossman

Just as television didn't put an end to radio or the movies (to say nothing of books), I don't think e-books will put an end to hard copies, even for someone like me who loves technology and does not fetishize the physical medium of books. ~ Steven Pinker, author of The Lauguage Instinct, How the Mind Works The Blank Slate and The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature.

Paper remains the standard to which digital media can only aspire.

RE: Kindle, iPad, et cetera: For a researcher, these new ways of accessing information are just extraordinary. I thing it introduces the possibility of a new standard of cognitive exactness and precision. ~ Rebecca Goldstein, author of Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal and Quantum Physics.

Compare Facebook posts to Gutenberg's Bible, and civilization seems to be going down the drain. But compare tweets to indulgences, and it's much of a muchness.

He was completely interested in humanizing technology.

He hated computers having names like ZX75 and numbers of megabytes. He hated technology as it was in the 1990s.

We don't do focus groups—that is the job of the designer," said Jony. "It's unfair to ask people who don't have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design."12

rumorea además que Apple está incorporando nuevos sensores, posiblemente para el control de los niveles de azúcar en sangre. Lo cual será especialmente útil para las personas con diabetes, pero también para todo aquel que desee ver cómo afecta a los niveles de azúcar en sangre una determinada comida o un dónut. La alimentación nunca volverá a ser igual.

Tal vez parezca una locura, pero estamos trabajando en ello. […] Nos gustaría ser capaces un día de fabricar nuevos productos única y exclusivamente a partir de materiales reciclados, incluyendo entre ellos los viejos productos de los clientes. Se trata de un experimento de tecnología del reciclaje que nos está enseñando muchas cosas, y confiamos en que este tipo de pensamiento inspire a los demás integrantes de nuestro sector470

Coding gives people the ability to change the world and from my perspective, it's the most important second language and the only language that is global