Quotes About Technology

The problems are hidden inside code and data, which makes them harder to see and easier to ignore.

Major chains like Staples and Home Depot were charging different prices on their websites depending on the zip code in which visitors seemed to be.

Though it is closely linked to computer science, data journalism is generally considered a social science.

Using a journalist's skepticism about what can go wrong can help us move from blind technological optimism to a more reasonable, balanced perspective

This naïveté about the inevitable problems that arise when people use new gadgets shows up again and again in tech culture.

HitchBOT made it as far as Philadelphia, where the doll was dismembered and left in a dark alley.4

The term machine learning entered the lexicon in 1959, according to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).

Kaggle.16 Kaggle, which is owned by Google's parent company, Alphabet,

As computing became a highly paid profession, women were also edged out. It was the result of deliberate choices.

these engineers turned the real world into a video game and navigated the car through it.

There's a name for systems like this that include humans: human-in-the-loop systems.

However, as life has become more computational, people haven't changed. Just because we have open government data doesn't mean we don't have corruption.

I was one of six undergraduate women majoring in computer science at a university of twenty thousand

We can learn to make better decisions about the downstream effects of technology so that we don't cause unintentional harm inside complex social systems.

data is socially constructed.

We live in an era of horseless carriages, wireless telegraphy, husbandless wives and wifeless husbands. I have hit upon a formula which I am tempted to utilize hereafter when I meet husbandless women. When they are introduced I shall ask: - Shaken, Or taken? signifying in the first instance a loss by way of Nevada, or, in the second, through the pearlier gates of that Paradise which is the hope of us all.

When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.

PUBLIC RELATIONS GOES DIGITAL

development at leading-edge software organizations, like JavaSoft, Microsoft, and Netscape. He called to chat with a

Corporation opened its doors in Mountain View, California. Four years later, Mosaic

incorporating, Mosaic Communications Corporation opened its doors in Mountain View, California. Four years later, Mosaic Communications had morphed into the half-billion-dollar Netscape Communications Corporation, the fastest-growing software company of all time. This chapter explores how

No corner of PARC generated anything like the Kay group's free-wheeling mania. "It was an amazingly seductive environment," recalled Merry. "I was there late at night all the time. People were so full of ideas and excitement, and of course everybody knew more than anybody else about how the world was supposed to be.

It was Ernest Lawrence, for instance, who elevated engineers to coequal status in the accelerator lab—physicists in Europe, by contrast, "tended to shun the 'dirty' details of engineering," which surely accounted for Europe's lagging behind the United States in accelerator technology, though

Kay remained preoccupied with a lesson he had assimilated from Marshall McLuhan: Once humans shape their tools, they turn around and "reshape us.