Quotes About Technology

Today Shakey's original DNA can be found in everything from the Kiva warehouse robot and Google's autonomous car to Apple's Siri intelligent assistant.

was not a coincidence that the two men who had the greatest impact on the shape of today's personal computer were among the earliest to fully comprehend the impact of the exponential scaling of microelectronic circuits.

Although driverless cars will displace millions of jobs, they will also save many lives. Today, decisions about implementing technologies are made largely on the basis of profitability and efficiency, but there is an obvious need for a new moral calculus. The devil, however, is in more than the details. As with nuclear weapons and nuclear power, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and robotics will have society-wide consequences, both intended and unintended, in the next decade.

religious experience, inspiring the same kinds of passion that Vannevar Bush's Memex article had given rise to for Engelbart twenty-three years earlier. Computing was just beginning to have an impact on society.

Both the Whole Earth Catalog and the Homebrew Computer Club, which gave rise to several dozen companies that forged the personal computer industry—including Apple—emerged from the fertile ground that Raymond created.

A decade later Brand's Whole Earth Catalog would begin with the premise "We are as gods and might as well get good at it.

Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, or WELL, a computer conferencing system that Brand launched in 1985.

In other words, certain kinds of transaction costs have been lowered by the internet: the cost of acquiring information, the time, effort, and money needed to learn what is available where and at what price.

Thanks to quality education, Israel is one of the most advanced countries in the world .. Israel is advancing in high-tech even more than other developed countries.

Higher education is a business that doesn't know it's going out of business.

If the economy grows enough, fast enough, the tech system should be modernized so that the tax revenues rise fast enough also, and we should put more money in education.

With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation.

Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats.

No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions.

I feel there is so much more we can do in improving education, making it accessible and understanding how technology can be a part of the solution.

When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice.

I love social media. I love the connectivity it provides, the creativity it allows, and the breathtaking wealth of information we all have at our fingertips because of it.

You could get an entire computer science education for free right now.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

Using clouds is a radical way of consuming IT. There are emotional barriers to giving up some level of control over the servers that you are running [for the companies].

I don't know if that's philosophy or if that's something else, but to me it [digital filming] has an emotional feeling , that this materiality, the loss of the materiality.

Early in my career as an engineer, I'd learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.