Quotes About Technology

The Internet, Facebook, synagogue pamphlets, and the plethora of TV channels and cellular networks in our lives increasingly blur the boundary between the public and private sphere.

Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.

New York City has changed enormously. My gut impression of it now is that it's like being in a sci-fi novel: 'Blade Runner' syndrome. Nothing seems real anymore; everything is pre-packaged.

Synergy is the VCR of media right now - discredited, outdated and left behind.

Technology is synonymous for connection with other people.

When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.

The synth helped us in that it meant you didn't have to be a traditional four-piece band and basically, you didn't have to work too hard.

I'm very interested in voice synthesis and vocoders in general.

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

To me, I don't see any difference between a synthesizer and an acoustic instrument. It's what's done on it that counts.

More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.

I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.

A guitar being played by an actual person is never going to be as precise and perfect as a programmed synthesizer. But we maintain there is value in the potential for human error.

People shouldn't knock the synthesizer. It's an aid, and it depends on how you use it, just like any other instrument.

I've worked with the same Prophet 5 Synthesizer by Sequential Circuit synthesiser for 40 years.

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet.

To me, the original VCS3 synthesizer is like a Stradivarius.

I like to think of synthetic biology as liquid alchemy, only instead of transmuting precious metals, you're synthesizing new biological functionality inside very small channels. It's called microfluidics.

Startups are now creating specialized 3-D printers capable of producing everything from synthetic hamburgers to multi-story apartment buildings.

This... is a synthetic world many of us live in today - a dream, if you will.

Finding a store that sells synthetic hair in Kigali is easier than locating a Starbucks in New York City without Google Maps.

I think people who have all kinds of debilitating mobility issues will benefit from robotic augmentation. That is, even before we get into organ replacement and organ printing and synthetic biology and so on and so forth.

Synthetic biology can help address key challenges facing the planet and its population. Research in synthetic biology may lead to new things such as programmed cells that self-assemble at the sites of disease to repair damage.