Quotes About Technology

Since our school went MiNet blind, it's for seriously more like 1836 than 2036.

Decreasing the budget on the space exploration is nothing but a great treason to humanity! Space exploration is closely related to our very existence! Cut the budget on other things and increase the budget on the space exploration! Think great; if you do not think great, universe annihilates you!

My best inorganic friend is science!

The line between the white-science and the black-science is very narrow. You can open roads or you can kill people by the same dynamite!

What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'

I didn't realize it but I might have created the first cell phone. Had I patented it, I probably would have made so much money that I wouldn't have had to write this book.

One day, Ryan thought bitterly as he watched the inbound steamer come lumbering up the Clyde as if it had declared war upon the ocean — one day the sky would be black with smoke and the sea just a constant din of engines. Gone forever would be the pavane of man, sail and wind, the elegant, pagan dance of wood and water, sweat and sinew. That day, Ryan would mourn.

We might miss the days of being unreachable.

as the AI researcher Pedro Domingos so memorably put it, "People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they're too stupid and they've already taken over the world."21

Above all, the take-home message from this book is that we humans tend to overestimate AI advances and underestimate the complexity of our own intelligence. Today's

Reflecting on real-life machine morality, the mathematician Norbert Wiener noted as long ago as 1960 that "we had better be quite sure that the purpose put into the machine is the purpose which we really desire."18

I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail. These two are my junk mail.

playing the same music on one of those Discmans

playing the same music on one of those Discmans for tapes from the eighties

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

There was nothing wrong with progress, with the evolution of a society, with developments in technology, but when avarice directed progress, the natural order of a community was destroyed.

The Internet took off in English and although there are now fifteen hundred languages on the Internet, seventy percent of it is still in English.

anhydrohepseterion" (a machine for stewing potatoes in their own juice).

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Eight hundred forty-three television stations, and there didn't appear to be much more worth watching than when we lived in the black-and-white wasteland of channels two through thirteen.

I heard people repeat the same promises about the bright technological future, but I saw the digital world replicate the inequalities of the "real" world

code is prioritized above human interactions.

In CS, it can be hard to explain the difference between the easy and the virtually impossible," reads the caption.

All these assistants are given female names and default identities by tech executives and developers—no accident. "I think that probably reflects what some men think about women—that they're not fully human beings,