Quotes About Technology

We all want a non-fragmented solution, but the utopian version of a single blockchain to rule them all is undesirable and impractical.

Anyone with an inbox knows what I'm talking about. A dozen emails to set up a meeting time. Documents attached and edited and reedited until no one knows which version is current. Urgent messages drowning in forwards and cc's and spam.

I now have a home recording studio, which I can operate entirely on my own, as well as a portable version of the same which allows me to record anywhere I like and simply swap out the hard drives for use in the home studio.

Trish Stratus is a cassette player and I am the newest version of the iTouch. iTouches keep improving. Technology gets better and better. Cassettes are collecting dust.

Biotech 1.0 is slow, like a lab science, and Version 2.0 is more like computational sciences.

When it comes to consumer electronics, I'm a big fat sucker, because even though I know you should never, ever buy anything until the second version of it is released, I just can't resist. I live in a state of perpetual Beta.

I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.

She came up with a whole way of doing fluoroscopy, which is kind of like a live version of X-ray, so that she could see the heart as it worked, not frozen in a picture.

Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done.

The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. 'The General Strike' attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model.

I started accessible GPS research in 1994 and the first version became available on a laptop in 2000.

Accept that the moment you buy your latest iPad, iPhone, tablet, app or game it will be promptly followed by a vastly improved and sleeker looking version.

Any product, service, or piece of technology that you acquire comes with instructions, options, and features that someone else – an engineer – designed before it ever made its way to you.

Seek products designed with intelligence, and recognize that having fewer switches, buttons, or dials does not necessarily mean that the product is less sophisticated or offers fewer benefits or features. Quite the opposite might be true!

Assembly programmers are the only programmers who can truly claim to be the masters, and that's a truth worth meditating on.

We are creating powerful technologies that can fundamentally alter our planet, manipulate biology, and soon, create machines that are smarter than we are. But we still possess the primitive behaviors that got us to this point. This combination is the true existential risk that we must address.

The AI strategy is implausible.

A CPU is just a collection of logic gates.

irrespective of the lack of biological evidence, that brains were just another kind of computer.

Deep Blue didn't win by being smarter than a human; it won by being millions of times faster than a human. Deep Blue had no intuition.

I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wait. Besides, I had paid almost $50 for an answering machine. Let it earn its keep.

Always marveling at how New Age pseudo-philosophy had taken over the Internet.

You can use my phone, if you'll pay the roaming charges," I said. "I need a land line," he said "A pay phone." "You're out of touch with the times," I said. "A pay phone might be a little hard to find. Nobody uses them anymore.

My life as an android was neat, balanced, and had real redeeming social value.