Quotes About Technology

Social media is like a virtual handshake when used by a professional advisor.

La transformación de las clases magistrales en espectáculos a finales del siglo XX, gracias a los proyectores de diapositivas y recientemente (a partir del 1987) de presentaciones en Power Point no supone tanto una innovación como un resurgimiento.

La NASA perdió el vídeo del primer aterrizaje en la Luna. En

The headline in the Washington Post read, "You'll Never Have to Go to Work Again." The article described how innovations in IT make it possible to choose whatever location you want to do your work from. The year was 1969.

I am blind -- but I am able to read thanks to a wonderful new system known as 'broil' . . . I'm sorry, I'll just feel that again.

All right, You Great Git, You've asked for it. I'll cover the world in Tastee-Freez and Wimpy Burgers. I'll fill it with concrete runways, motorways, aircraft, television, automobiles, advertising, plastic flowers, frozen food and supersonic bangs. I'll make it so noisy and disgusting that even You'll be ashamed of Yourself! No wonder You've so few friends. You're unbelievable!

I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph.

There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it.

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations.... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them "operators" or "programmers."

I grew up on a farm," Ayanna protested. "We worked the land." She pulled a face. "Well, I helped Dad program the agribots.

How they hell does it do that?

Laura Brandt knew all about coming out of a suspension chamber.

weapons science was always kept very close to the government's chest, receiving the most funds and the least publicity.

Three hundred and twenty-eight wormholes were opened in unison. They were small, all of them measuring a metre and a half wide. Just enough for a ten-megatonne warhead to pass through. The wormholes closed.

Their electronics are still back in the Stone Age.

The ubiquitous semi-sentient utility routine running in her macrocellular clusters responded immediately by unfolding a basic array of mental icons, slender lines of blue fairy light that superimposed themselves within her wobbly vision. She frowned. If she was reading their efficiency modes correctly, her biononics had

code could be written to solve the problems. Code could do anything. Code could save the world.

I've only been out a few days. I'd forgotten how fucking useless meat bodies are. There's barely enough neurones to run a walking routine, let alone something complicated like tying your shoelaces up. I've had to run an expanded mentality in the habitat's RI systems just to keep thinking properly; and that hardware isn't exactly young and frisky any more.

Code could do anything. Code could save the world.

Prepare to have your warranty voided," she said.

Peter F. Hamilton