Quotes About Technology

A man in Black and White" Some years ago, a child was asked whether he liked radio or television best. The boy said radio, because the pictures were better.

In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.

Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.

I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper.

I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.

Homo Sapiens and their guns.

You ask, can changing your inner life make a difference in the troubles of the world? Nothing else can! No amount of technology, computers, internet, artificial intelligence, biotech, nanotechnology, or space technology is going to stop continuing racism, warfare, environmental destruction, and tribalism. These all have their source in the human heart.

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

All technology, for example, is magic to a primitive.

War may be the most efficient stimulus of innovation and technological advance,

Nicholson Baker, a man who knows the joys of obsessive research, has already started the division. "Let me tell you," he says, "I remember the old days, the antegoogluvian era. It was O.K.—it wasn't horrible by any means. There were cordless telephones, and people wore comfortable sweaters… . But the haul was haphazard, and it came in slow.

But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.

If there is one thing you must understand about the future, it is that not only is the world changing; the rate of change is increasing at an exponential pace.

The world of tomorrow will not be created out of thin air either. It will come from the convergence of a wide variety of accelerating technologies.

In this same vein, tomorrow's unusual, unconventional, and unthinkable companies will be created from sensor technology, big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, 5G networks, synthetic biology, genomics, 3D printing, and robotics.

Pick just one trend that you consider unstoppable—5G, sensor technology, big data, AI, blockchain, quantum computing, nanotechnology, robotics, 3D printing, biotechnology, synthetic biology, renewable energy, augmented reality, virtual reality, satellite technology, genomics, gene editing, online education, etc.—and research how it is already impacting your industry.

Emerging technologies may not revolutionize the business world tomorrow, but they will transform it sooner than many people expect. Therefore, anticipate cheapness.

But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.

We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.

The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.

That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.