Quotes About Technology

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Lacking television, radio, or internet, she hoards seven CD players with six-disc magazines

An outboard racer. The drive shaft pulled up and secured.

These days, many of the younger generation lacked a serious work ethic and, having been hooked on tech and social media most of their lives, had the attention span of a Chihuahua with ADHD

The tape runs out. The recorder clicks off automatically.

the building seeming filled with machine sounds, as if the robots of the Apocalypse were being manufactured here.

Technology changes nothing. People were people before and after the steam engine, before and after the airplane. But Ã¢â'¬Â¦ not quite now. Walls. That's what it is. The problem is walls.

Singularity

The micro recorder is in the same box, sans batteries.

According to the EPA, all the booming was—I quote—'only mechanical sonic devices that simulate

She doesn't ask him about drones.

this land where freedom made possible the unlimited use of the human imagination and facilitated technology advanced enough to save the world when the world needed saving

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Bettinger bought his first genetic test in 2003. A few years later he launched a blog—The Genetic Genealogist—with the aim of explaining the science behind the tests in simple language.

Even the help wanted ads in the back of Science or Nature can give you a clue as to what technology is hot.

automation, for all its benefits, can take a toll on the performance and talents of those who rely on it.

The choices we make, or fail to make, about which tasks we hand off to machines shape our lives and the place we make for ourselves in the world.

A labor-saving device doesn't just provide a substitute for some isolated component of a job or other activity. It alters the character of the entire task, including the roles, attitudes, and skills of the people taking part.

Automation turns us from actors into observers. Instead of manipulating the yoke, we watch the screen. That shift may make our lives easier, but it can also inhibit the development of expertise.

Does our essence still lie in what we know, or are we now content to be defined by what we want? If we don't grapple with that question ourselves, our gadgets will be happy to answer it for us.

Although traditional weapons killed far more people in the Great War, poison gas gave a new nightmare edge to the fighting.

did you know that way back in the 1980s some scientists proposed an ambitious effort called the Human Protein Project to map all human proteins? It never happened. Instead, the NIH backed the Human Genome Project for one big reason: Proteins were tough to study, while genes were far easier to sequence. The tools dictate the science.

someday..., we'll medicate human experience right out of the human experience.

Marv stared at his phone. Kids these days. It was like on that day in school when they taught personal responsibility, this entire fucking generation had banged in sick.