Quotes About Technology

We didn't have to use technology to build a surveillance state.

In this the age of concern over privacy invasion and surveillance and manipulation, people will start to realize that there is no way to avoid being manipulated by other people, governments, marketers, and the like.

Once archaeologists have shown possible 'new' ancient features, they can import the data into their iPads and take it to the field to do survey or excavation work. Technology doesn't mean we aren't digging in the dirt anymore - it's just that we know better where to dig.

Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.

My BlackBerry is essential to my survival.

Without disruptions, startups can't survive.

The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact.

Apple and Google want to create encryption for which they could not provide you the key. Their business model will not survive if the American government has a special relationship with them that requires them to surrender this kind of information.

I cannot conceive of how more than 1% of us could possibly survive a cyberwar.

Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements.

Social media helps you stay connected, but we can't survive without real communication with loved ones.

China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.

I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google.

I come from the hi-tech world - you don't survive if you don't constantly reinvent yourself every few years.

When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive.

There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century.

PC gaming has always been strong, and I see it surviving for quite a few more years. It will be around for at least as long as people use PCs.

Technology businesses in general are susceptible to hacking. That's why you have to work really, really, really hard with law enforcement, with security experts, internal and external groups, to make sure you're paying attention and addressing security concerns.

Facebook and Myspace are the U.S. audience, which is tried and true when it comes to being susceptible to ads.

Asking Siri where the nearest sushi bar is - that's not interesting. What's interesting is asking your phone where one of your friends have last had dinner in the neighborhood, or having it recommend a cool paella place in Barcelona because it knows you eat paella all the time at home.

I suspect many people have the problem that they type much more slowly than they think. Consequently, they keep resynchronizing their thought processes with what they have typed so far, and they match a later part of the thought with an earlier part that they have typed.

I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.

I do think... gene technology has got real benefits to offer, which will have maybe an occasional downside, but I suspect not very many.

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.