Quotes About Technology

If the techs are on it we're fine, but Briamiv and his buddy could fuck up a full stop at the end of a sentence.

William Gibson told only half the story: like the future, the past is also here in the present, and just as unevenly distributed.

In 1964 a coalition of activists, technologists, and academics delivered "The Triple Revolution", an open memorandum to President Lyndon B. Johnson. The signatories pointed out that "wealth produced by machines… is still wealth", and used this to argue for more a equitable distribution of global profits.

The assumption – and I think it's correct – is that the technology is going to happen anyway, so the best thing is to get it distributed as quickly as possible and see what people use it for, and keep an eye out for any problems that arise.

One moment it was a calculating machine, attempting dispassionately to keep up with the gouts of data. And then awash in those gouts, something metal twitched and a patter of valves sounded that had not been instructed by those numbers. A loop of data was self-generated by the analytical engine. The processor reflected on its creation in a hiss of high-pressure steam. One moment it was a calculating machine. The next, it thought.

Spending time with most automa is like accompanying someone brutally cognitively damaged, but Ehrsul was a friend. "Come save me from the village idiots," she sometimes said to me after downloading updates alongside other automa.

Perennials are ever-blooming, relevant people of all ages who know what's happening in the world, stay current with technology and have friends of all ages. We get involved, stay curious, mentor others, and are passionate, compassionate, creative, confident, collaborative, global-minded risk takers.

The video game industry is more than 4 times the size of the movie industry, and about 9 times the size of the music industry.

time periods, and outcome variables Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it is impossible to find any domain in which humans clearly outperformed crude extrapolation algorithms.

We are fighting a war on load times.

increase an employee's productivity by one to two minutes a day, you've paid back the cost of wireless.

Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness — a little bit of humanity.

The ultimate cost reduction is eliminating atoms entirely and dealing only in bits.

Never underestimate the power of a million amateurs with keys to the factory.

A Long Tail is just culture unfiltered by economic scarcity.

The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.

And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.

And this is one way to do technology forecasting get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn.

The past ten years have been about discovering new ways to create, invent, and work together on the Web. The next ten years will be about applying those lessons to the real world.

that country became a center for making mobile phone components and handsets. 5. The controller board is made in China because U.S. companies long ago transferred manufacture of printed circuit boards to Asia. 6. The lithium polymer battery is made in China because battery development and manufacturing migrated to China along with the development and manufacture of consumer electronics and notebook

Actualmente, el «lugar» cada vez importa menos en la fabricación: las ideas triunfan sobre la geografía.

The old Televisions had an off switch.

Please make IP Version 6 part of your future studies. Understanding IPv6 is going to be a major boost to your career and your future. Notice that I didn't say "might be a major boost".

A lot of network admins have put off learning IPv6, which is a huge mistake. Even if it doesn't impact your current career, you're definitely limiting your future prospects if you aren't strong with IPv6 – and you're strengthening your prospects when you are!