Quotes About Technology

He gave up; the false cat had ceased functioning, so evidently the short — if that was what ailed the thing — had finished off the power supply and basic drive-train.

The first robot was built in 1979. By 2000 all routine work was done by robots. Human beings were free to do what they wanted. Art, science, entertainment, whatever they liked.

In our time we maintain colonies on Mars, on Luna; we're perfecting workable interstellar flight—these people have not been able to cope with the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma. This

You're confusing technology with culture. You look at this and say, 'What a great civilization man has built,' when you really mean, 'What a great technology mankind has developed.' There's all the difference in the world. Technology is of the mind and hands. Civilization is of the spirit—and spiritually we are still in the Dark Ages.

Es como la fábrica totalmente automatizada que se repara a sí misma. ¿Sabe a lo que se refiere la palabra «retroalimentación»?

All his life he had controlled machines, bent nature and the forces of nature to man and man's needs. The human race had slowly evolved until it was in a position to operate things, run them as it saw fit. Now all at once it had been plunged back down the ladder again, prostrate before a Power against which they were children.

Even the most base schemes of human beings are preferable to the most exalted tropisms of machines.

Phoenicians pioneered a new style of writing that reproduced not images of the things described but the sounds used for them in speech--the first alphabetic script, As trade developed, writing became more common, for clay tablets had been replaced by an Egyptian technology: papyrus. The thinner more flexible material, made from the pith of reeds growing along the Nile, is the ancestor of the English word 'paper' (now being replaced by The Tablet).

gyropters will arrive shortly after the zeppelins. In accordance with your orders, the Lady

I have found in my life that I often phone one person when I expect myself, or others expect me, to be phoning someone else; it is what the telephone company calls displacement.

This was, keep in mind, the tail end of the era of the mainframe computers, tape- and card-based data storage, & c., which now seems almost Flinstonianly remote.

The truth is that every invention leads men to say: can I use it to kill, to main, to terrify?

Facebook made $50 billion from advertising in 2018 — $25 on average for each user, and $112 per North American user.1

When Silicon Valley says "disruption," this means they don't understand what they're doing, don't care to understand, and have only contempt for anyone who objects. "Move fast and break things," as Facebook used to put it.

Blockchains don't solve settlement and compliance issues — they're only more efficient if they can bypass regulation. Libra could only be more efficient than existing systems as long as it could dodge regulation, and none of its competitors could.

Stablecoin systems are payment systems, and the biggest problem with international payments is not the technology — it's compliance with anti-money-laundering laws. Cryptocurrencies mostly work around this by ignoring it — but Libra couldn't be allowed to do that.

After the past few months of the world heaping ordure on Libra

A financial system running entirely on smart contract programs on a public blockchain is a big, juicy single target for hackers.

You may be on Facebook lots — but would you trust Facebook with your money? For most people, the answer was "no.

There is no innovation whatsoever. They have literally invented nothing. Libra is possibly the least innovative project to ever come out of Silicon Valley. — Aleksi Grym

It suddenly struck me-this was HARLIE showing off what he could do, his way of impressing everybody, his way of convincing people that he could handle complex problems that required a lot of fast processing.

If television is a quick detour to mass stupidity, then video games are the express lane.

There are three kinds of people in this modern world; gamer boy eunuchs, cell phone nymphos and book readers. The most valuable are the very vulnerable book readers.

Google: the selective use of polygraphs