Quotes About Technology

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

Technology is taking over mind control programmes today, which allows them to go direct to the brain's information processing systems through the medium of electricity, electromagnetism, frequency, and microchips.

HAARP and similar technology around the world can bounce radio waves off the ionosphere and back to earth within the frequency band of brain activity, and mass-manipulate thought and emotion with the capability of targeting specific areas at specific times.

As the population of software developers ages, they care more about the rest of their lives. Many lament wasting their twenties locked up in an office slaving over a piece of code that failed to reach market expectations and became obsolete soon after release. Work/life

Simulations are not illusions. Virtual worlds are real. Virtual objects really exist.

Technophilosophy is a combination of (1) asking philosophical questions about technology and (2) using technology to help answer traditional philosophical questions.

The first episode of the story was remade between the third and the fourth as there was electronic interference on the tape of the original recording. (The episode was indeed remade, but the real reason was that talkback – i.e. the sound of instructions relayed to the studio floor from the control gallery – was picked up and clearly audible on the soundtrack of the original recording.)

The problem, really, is that while humanity continues to experience huge leaps in technology, we experience no equivalent leaps in our ethical capacity. In the never-ending arms race between technology and ethics, technology always wins. Researchers who tally the results of this immortal race have a name for it: history.

Plaintext a might be represented in a long message by all 26 letters. Conversely, any given ciphertext letter might stand for any one of 26 plaintext letters.

Its coding wheels, stepping a space—or two, or three, or four—after every letter or so, did not return to their original positions to re-create the same series of paths, and hence the same sequence of substitutes, until hundreds of thousands of letters had been enciphered.

they employed a device called the "skytale," the earliest apparatus used in crypto-logy

And like I say, I think we've got other cases other than Iraq. I do not think the problem of global proliferation of weapons technology of mass destruction is going to go away, and that's why I think it is an urgent issue.

He would explain that Disney began work on EPCOT on Day One. They put in the vacuum-powered trash system. "That's EPCOT," he'd say.

When Kevin came to work with a bloody wound on his knee, they scanned that in too, to use as a wall texture

The situation is so much better for programmers today -- a cheap used PC, a Linux CD, and an Internet account, and you have all the tools and resources necessary to work your way to any level of programming skills you want to shoot for.

What happens to this kind of business when the data superhighway arrives? . . . No sales force, no inventory costs, no royalties to Nintendo or Sega, no marketing costs, no advertising costs, no executive parking spaces. This is a new and exciting business model, not just for games, and not even just for software, but for a host of products and services that can be sold or delivered via an electronic underground.

It is almost painful for me to watch some of the VRML initiatives. It just seems so obviously the wrong way to do something. All of this debating, committee forming, and spec writing, and in the end, there isn't anything to show for it. Make something really cool first, and worry about the spec after you are sure it's worth it!

For new media reactionaries...the problem is technology, the endless distractions of the Internet, the breakdown of authority in an age of blogs and Twitter, the collapse of narrative in a hyper-linked, multi-networked world.

Facebook, with its flow of useless particularity, makes it impossible to forget, thus impossible to remember.

we live in a twisted world where everything, both big and small, is subject to surveillance, and where anything worth money will always be exploited.

Wait, Ed. Did you say she?" "You better believe it. Our hacker's a she!