Quotes About Technology

Later that evening, Alexander Graham Bell wrote to his father, "I feel that I have at last found the solution of a great problem and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid on to houses just like water and gas is, and friends will converse with each other without leaving home.

That is more than 300 million times faster than the telegraph and 30 billion times faster than horseback.

While earlier generations of wireless technology evolved from voice to data (just as the wired network had), 5G was the first technology to be built from the ground up for the purpose of microcomputers talking to microcomputers.

Mobile technology makes it possible to be present without being in attendance.

Bezos's Amazon e-reader broke 550 years of precedent by separating the act of publishing from putting ink on paper.

In Estonia, for instance, a citizen can conduct her entire relationship with the government online, including voting.

The Colon key on my keyboard doesn't work when I press down the shift button. Does anyone know of a good Colon cleanser that can help me get my shift together.

Mobile is the digital gateway for the real world.

While the characters drive the epic story of Robotech, it's the robotic mecha that capture the imagination.

But the robots who lived there kept their metal to themselves, so that the robots who lived in the centre were left to forge bodies out of wind and dust.

My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.

Taking the car out of the rental parking lot, almost getting fender-bendered by the guy in the BMW speaking capitalist Cro-Magnon into his cell phone; wondering whether the time has come to get a gun; already starting to look forward to my lethal injection—

DNA is now a reality. Reproductive

In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.

Many people say that Steve Jobs is the Henry Ford or Andrew Carnegie of our time. Those comparisons are completely incorrect. Steve Jobs is Willy Wonka.

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

We are already the most overinformed, underreflective people in the history of civilization," argue Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey

It's that human beings operate most productively in the same one-dimensional way computers do: continuously, at high speeds, for long periods of time, running multiple programs at the same time.

How might an unscrupulous person try to get around those famous laws, designed to protect humans, as well robots, from each other?

The Singularity is Coming

The Machine will reinvent the fundamental architecture of computers to enable a quantum leap in performance and efficiency, while lowering costs over the long term and improving security.

Many scientists predict that as early as 2024 an unprecedented event will happen that will completely change our lives.

In non-technical language, The Singularity is Coming clarifies what may happen and speculates about how it may affect us. It is a compilation of information that includes comments from experts, news announcements of the latest developments, and a comprehensive reading list.

Are we on the verge of a new beginning for humanity, or the end of life as we know it? Read The Singularity is Coming now and decide for yourself.