Quotes About Technology

three of the five independently perceived a large grid, net, or honeycomb made up of sophisticated electronic equipment and wires that had been embedded in the ground.

The military and intelligence communities have vast resources at their disposal. They undoubtedly possess technological capabilities that are far beyond anything that is known in the public sector. And in the past, they have certainly demonstrated a willingness to carry out psychological warfare exercises, disinformation campaigns, and surveillance programs against unwitting civilian populations, even when such programs are clearly illegal.

We are quite primitive still, are we not?

Just programmed my Alexa to order a pizza if I shout incoherently for more than 10 seconds

We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.

If it's got a beard or a battery, you're going to have trouble with it.

Successful innovators focused on technology as a driver of value, not just as a tool for operational efficiency.

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.

There is no all-?purpose computer built that weighs as little as a hundred and fifty pounds. You do.

The future's a weirder place than we thought it would be when we were little kids.

Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.

the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.

I'm a big laser believer - I really think they are the wave of the future.

In a world where everything is available online, the idea of sitting down with a book may seem archaic. But there's still something about holding a physical object in your hand, turning the pages and smelling the ink that can't be replicated on a screen.

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration just think how many bombs that would buy!

Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.

Betamax is the wave of the future

We exchange our privacy for access, and we may be losing our sense of agency in the process.

This is the iGods' alluring and dangerous promise—to place us in the center of our own self-reflexive universe. But what if we don't necessarily know what is best?

When it comes to technology, we celebrate the icons of Silicon Valley as iGods worth emulating. We reward them for granting us superpowers. With a smartphone in our pocket, we can transcend the bodily limits of space and time. We can send and receive, buy and sell, upload and download with a swipe of our finger.

It is good to be connected to family and friends, but when we cannot resist the urge to check updates or upload a photo, we are veering toward idolatry. Idols serve our needs according to our schedule. When we call, they answer. They give us a false sense of being in control. But over time, the relationship reverses. We end up attending to their needs, centering our lives on their priorities and agendas.

The world of technology is the sum total of what people do. Its redemption can only come from changes in what people, individually and collectively, do or refrain from doing. —Ursula M. Franklin

We will still need to consider the implications of our blind faith in technology because the iGods' promises did not point to or include the divine. Instead, they suggested that we are becoming divine as we develop such amazing intelligence within smaller and smaller devices, so small that a point of Singularity will blur humanity with machine, our minds with eternity. Should we find this inspiring or distressing? What is the telos of technology—the end goal?