Quotes About Technology

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.

Books are the province of romantics and humanists, not heartless nerds.

How long will it be before obstetricians transfer a dab of vaginal mucus into the mouth of the newborn to be on the safe side?

I bought an irregular electric blanket. It's solar-powered.

Some people, possibly aliens, don't favor a dark terminal background. - Hacking the Planet (with Notcurses)

T]he upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic. Imagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease." —NICK BILTON, tech columnist, The New York Times

The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule.

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.

Nothing human makes it out of the near-future.

Machinic desire can seem a little inhuman, as it rips up political cultures, deletes traditions, dissolves subjectivities, and hacks through security apparatuses, tracking a soulless tropism to zero control. This is because what appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space that must assemble itself entirely from its enemy's resources.

Neo-China arrives from the future.

Cybergothic is [...] guided by schizoanalysis in marking actuality as primary repression or collapsed potential

Either technology exists within time or time exists within technology.

Both of these were played on the family's new state-of-the-art gramophone that was electric and connected to a device resembling a cross between the cabinets made in the days of Louis XIV and a Rolls-Royce dashboard.

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

The technology backbone is no longer an afterthought.

It's all just zeros and ones. You're a zero. And I've won.

It was snowing. Her suit warmed rapidly, and the starvision visor turned the world smoky gray, ethereal, with the snow drifting down in black flakes. The grass was frozen, but she could not hear the crunch of her footsteps: all sound, all vision, all sensation was filtered by her suit. She was isolated from the world, just as though this were one of her first virtual-reality training missions as a cadet.

Her face had been digitally erased and replaced by the star's, but I would have recognized anywhere those shoulders and tight waist, the way she turned like an eel through the air, as though she had all the time in the world.