Quotes About Technology

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like Daleks in Dr Who.

Another lesson to emerge is that in a complex technological disaster, hardware by itself won't solve the problem. You need to think things through, to diagnose and analyze and interpret.

Ships and sails proper for the heavely air should be fashioned. Johannes Kepler to Galileo 1609

Whitney had carefully kept the cotton gin under wraps while he applied for a patent, but he made a tactical error when he allowed women to have a look at it

There are days when I rather detest living in the year 1867. Everything moves so quickly. Change is happening at such a pace. I preferred the way of life thirty years ago when I was a boy.

Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community. Then they were quickly silenced, but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots.' UMBERTO ECO

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I blame Steve Jobs. And that Zuckerberg fellow. All those clever little psychopaths who couldn't get laid in high school but make up for their sexual inadequacy by inventing technology that destroys humanity. They're the Oppenheimers of the twenty-first century.

If you ask me,' she adds, pointing towards the book in her husband's lap, the stern visage of its subject, Alexander Graham Bell, staring back at her, 'that fucker has a lot to answer for.

A system that makes no errors is not intelligent.

Sometimes science fiction does become scientific discovery.

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then…?

Best if the driver didn't have to get hurt. Though having been fool enough to volunteer for army service, of course, and worse still, having been fool enough to accept orders unquestioningly from a machine... But everybody did that. Everybody, all the time. Otherwise none of this would have been possible. Similarly, none of it would have had to happen.

How right you are." She shivered. "Some of my colleagues at G2S, you know, live at Trianon, where they test new life-styles. And they boast about how their actions are monitored night and day, compare the advantages of various ultramodern bugs … I don't know how they can stand it.

a sneaking feeling that people are wrong when they say human beings can't keep track of the world any more, we have to leave it up to the machines.

First we had the legs race. Then we had the arms race. Now we're going to have the brain race.

The nation was tightly webbed in a net of interlocking data-channels, and a time-traveler from a century ago would have been horrified by the degree to which confidential information had been rendered accessible to total strangers capable of adding two plus two.

Out of all the calls taken, nearly half—I think they say forty-five percent—are from people who are afraid someone else knows data that they don't and is gaining an unfair advantage by it. For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.

and that person might be Nickie Haflinger!

What third alternative?" Said Chang with the dream-like air of a man who finds himself doing the impossible. "They gave it to us," said the Machine.

Pressed to identify useful financial innovations created during the past quarter-century, Paul A. Volcker, former Federal Reserve Chairman and recent chairman of President Obama's Economic Recovery Board, could single out only one: "The ATM.

Children now log about twenty-two thousand hours watching television by age nineteen, more than twice the time spent in school.3

We live in an impatient culture. We use drive-through windows to buy meals, pick up our dry cleaning, complete banking transactions, and order prescriptions. I think Lisa Thorne's comment on my blog describes a lot of us: "The good news is I move fast; the bad news is I often move alone."4 Everybody is in a hurry, but that prevents most of us from connecting with others effectively. If you want to connect with people, you need to slow down.