Quotes About Technology

The digital age was dragging older lawyers like the Boones into the world of paperless files and storage, and not a minute too soon... Why destroy so many trees to produce much paper that becomes useless almost as fast as it is filed away?

This is not science fiction. Around the world, 50,000 men with prostate cancer have been treated with focused ultrasound. Over 36,000 women with uterine fibroids (benign tumors of the uterus) have been treated, thus avoiding hysterectomies and infertility. Clinical trials for tumors of the brain, breast, pancreas, and liver, as well as Parkinson's disease and arthritis, are inching forward at over 270 research sites around the world.

Focused ultrasound is a new, revolutionary, groundbreaking, non-invasive therapeutic technology that has the potential to transform the treatment of a variety of serious medical disorders in addition to brain tumors, improve

Americans no longer experience vacations. They simply Sony them so they can ignore them for the rest of the year.

I love it. The FBI is the most powerful crime - fighting organization in the world, with the best technology money can buy, and you're relying on a thirteen -year old kid who thinks he can identify a person by the way he walks.

His head is securely fixed in a hemispheric focused ultrasound brain transducer (fig. 2). The transducer is capable of transmitting more than 1,000 intersecting beams of ultrasound energy through the scalp and skull to the tumor with a high degree of accuracy and without damaging the

The fifth member of the team preferred to work at home. Ahmed was the hacker, the forger, the creator of all illusions, but he didn't have the nerve to carry guns and such. He worked from his basement in Buffalo and had never been caught or arrested. He left no trails. His 5 percent would come off the top. The other four would take the rest in equal

By 4:00 a.m., an electrical engineer had worked his way through the school's computer grid and found the problem. Electricity

Focused ultrasound therapy is still in its early stages, still experimental, but there is enough research to date to be very optimistic.

The idols of progress and the belief that technology will solve all our problems, he felt were profoundly wrong.

wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

He stepped over to Vidian and turned the man's head. There, in his left ear, he saw a small dataport. A moment's revulsion struck and passed. "All right," he said. "Who wants to download Vidian's brain?

While Christopher Pike loved old Westerns, he'd also sampled stories set in other times. He'd noticed something: even as technological progress improved the lives of fictional characters, it had made the jobs of the storytellers who created them more difficult.

In the modern economy, a slightly bizarre fact, production is now more necessary for the employment it provides than for the goods and services it supplies.

For a generation of kids who grew up without a home phone, basic telephone etiquette is increasingly an issue.

There is more information in one edition of the New York Times than the average person in 17th-century England would have come across in a lifetime.

The world's population spends 500,000 hours a day typing Internet security codes.

A single sperm contains 37.5 MB of DNA information. One ejaculation represents a data transfer of 15,875 GB

Before dentists' chairs were invented, the patient's head was clenched between the surgeon's knees.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Yet even under a best case scenario, even with the new technologies, it will still take months to deliver large quantities of vaccine. In addition, much of the U.S. vaccine supply is manufactured outside the country; in a lethal pandemic, there is a question whether another government would allow its export before its own population was protected.

Man might be defined as "modern" largely to the extent that he attempts to control, as opposed to adjust himself to, nature

Nevertheless, the DARPA Robotics Challenge did what it was designed to do: expose the limits of today's robotic systems.