Quotes About Technology

The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.

My mother worked for Confederation of Indian Industry, and Aptech Computers.

I believe that society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?

As a society I think we are going to be much better off by having machines that can work in conjunction with humans to do things more efficiently and even better in some cases. That will 'enable humans to do things that they do better than machines.

I want more Internet. I want every one of the 6 billion people on the planet to be able to connect to the Internet - I think they will add things to it that will really benefit us all.

It takes work to figure out how to bank on your phone, how to sign up for classes, how to connect in a community.

When we heard that little dial-up sound, that eeeeee, and then you connected, and you then go and you check your mail and you get that 'you got mail,' you were excited. I mean, that was the thing.

I love connected culture.

If you're talking about a world in which everybody is connected by computers 24 hours a day, that exists right now.

The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.

The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.

Once you used a computer with a broadband connection, you knew you would never be able go back to the old voiceband modem connection - even if it was free.

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.

I personally believe that the iPod is a frankly corrosive device because it encourages you to surround yourself with your favorites. The whole idea of a playlist is to surround yourself with your favorite things, and the interesting thing is that when you do that, they cease to be your favorites.

Get the screens out of your room and surround yourself with books.

I loved being surrounded by gadgets.

These days, you're always surrounded by music and sounds, whether you're in the mall or a subway car.

If you live in a big city, and you're surrounded by people, you're way more in touch with humanity than you would be if you lived in a very remote area and just spent all day long on the computer.

The years of space flight since the orbiting of Sputnik I back in 1957 had produced many fascinating results, but they had also brought a realization of the many problems that surrounded the use of rockets for space flight.

You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form.

We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better.

We are surrounded by people with accents because America is a nation of immigrants. Beyond that, the people who made your iPhone and the shirt on your back are probably Asians, and we're really not that disconnected from each other; we have very intimate relationships with the world, whether or not we realize it.

Science plays a huge role in our lives. We're surrounded by technology, we depend on it.