Quotes About Technology

the government moved swiftly to mandate that all trains should have "positive train control," an electronic signaling system that will automatically stop or slow down a train to prevent a crash if the engineer misses a red signal. Although the system may ultimately benefit the railroads marginally by making it possible to run extra trains, effectively they are being asked to pay several billion dollars

Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.

Women over 50 were the first adopters of e-readers, changing the face of book publishing, and they continue to be the number-one group of book buyers.

Not to say that music today doesn't have heart, but it's really few and far between because technology has advanced itself so much that anybody can be a singer. Back in the day, you had to know how to sing.

You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.

I really don't spend any time on the Internet, so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect.

Other signs of the apocalypse proliferate. After a pop-up ad appears on her screen, Vivian announces that she plans to sign up for Netflix. She buys a digital camera on Amazon with one click. She asks Molly if she's ever seen the sneezing baby panda video on YouTube. She even joins Facebook.

She made an Excel spreadsheet on her laptop that lays it all out. Jack would laugh if he knew, but she's been in the system long enough to understand that it all comes down to documentation.

I don't think I've missed much." "Wireless Internet, digital photographs, smartphones, Facebook, YouTube . . ." Molly taps the fingers of one hand. "The entire world has changed in the past decade." "Not my world." "But you're missing out on so much." Vivian laughs. "I hardly think FaceTube—whatever that is—would improve my quality of life.

Surely if men are sufficient masters of things to build a howitzer they ought to know better than to destroy each other with it. — Stewart Gore-Browne, from Arras, 1916.

The only access now to the world, the universe, is made through bits and pieces, clung to as small heroes battling against withdrawal.

It seems to me now a shocking commentary on the press of our time that I pushed the hydrogen-bomb tests on Eniwetok right off the front pages. A tragic war was still raging in Korea, George VI had died and Britain had a new queen, sophisticated guided missiles were going off in New Mexico, Jonas Salk was working on a vaccine for infantile paralysis...Christine Jorgensen was on page one.

Despite the availability of testing, at least half of the population at risk for Huntington's disease still has children without making use of the new technologies. Even some of the people who have prenatal testing for Huntington's still have a profound reluctance to learn their own status. Couples who try preimplantation genetic diagnosis may even conceive a child and choose not to find out if the parent at risk has the mutation. Deciding

The problem of rapidly evolving technologies or "digital migration" was rather alarmingly illustrated in England in the 1980s with a considerably larger amount of information. Actually, it began in 1086 with the Domesday Book. The first public record ever made in England, the Domesday Book was instigated by William the Conqueror, who wished to take a census of his people and, more specifically, their possessions.

genealogy companies have quietly and steadily expanded to become some of the biggest data organizations of the twenty-first century.

not put in place, one wonders how insurance and pharmaceutical companies will treat our grandchildren if they have genetic information about them, perhaps even before they are even conceived. Insurance

Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.

twenty-first century communications technology rendering the planet not so much global village as global schoolroom full of sniggering male virgins and bitchy female hypocrites.

In cyberspace, everyone can hear you scream.

Why should you give up God because of gunpowder? Since the world began, God in his wisdom has given us tools with which to slaughter each other. Jawbones of asses. Slings. Swords. Crossbows. Why shouldn't he give us gunpowder?

Technology may have changed, but God's truth and the human condition never change, and we see that clearly through the unfolding patterns of Christian history.

It was now hard to believe how difficult it had once been to follow a person in Bangkok in a time before smart phones and social media. The new generation demanded to be followed online. It was in their digital blood. A small investment in a few specialized apps, and not even Sherlock Holmes in his most inspired opium dreams could have imagined the possibilities.

I have an innate incompetence for anything mechanical. It has always seemed to me that a machine can tell from far away that I am afraid of it and that I don't understand anything about it, and breaks down on the spot out of sheer self-preservation.

One would like to know, for most people, being denied reliable telepathic communication, reach for the phone, which they feel is more reliable.