Quotes About Technology

History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science fiction.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.

History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

Never in history has distance meant less.

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.

I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.

Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored.

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

Microsoft, by some accounts, the second most capitalized company on the planet, is the only corporate colossus in history whose entire product line could be eliminated with a giant magnet.

The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed.

It was a fortunate moment in history that I happened to be in. There was a confluence of the internet and all this other stuff that I was able to capitalize on.

Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people.

It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

If journalism is the first draft of history, then digital literacy is the first blush of the first page of history.

Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.