Quotes About Technology

The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language.

I'm an optimist about the power of technology to transform lives for the better.

When you think about things like power efficiency or performance or Internet connectivity as major technology areas where you have multiple investments, multiple products - security is like that.

Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.

No strings attached, your love is so WiFi.

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them.

Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.

At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.

The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

There is a big difference between tweeting to your friend about something that is happening and having a real personal relationship with people.

Why buy vinyl when he could keep all his music on a device that fit in his pocket?

Why was it, he wondered, that all these stories envisaged technological marvels by the bushel, but seemed to assume that social structure and culture wouldn't change in over four centuries? (Chad Oliver, "The Ant and the Eye")

In essence, financial technology is a time machine we have built ourselves.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.

Cada invento de la modernidad nos llega como sacralizado por la idea de que toda novedad supone un avance. Nadie duda que los autos de hoy son mejores que los autos de ayer: pocos piensan que la profileración de los autos está cambiando por un plato de orgullo y comodidad el oxígeno el planeta y el derecho a la capa de ozono

In 1894 Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patents expired. Within a few years, over 6,000 local telephone companies were competing for the U.S. market.

We were spoiled unlike any generation in history, and we forgot completely just how dependent we were on the juice flowing through the wires, the buttons doing something when we pushed them.

To put it coldly, my friends, all the ones who should have died years ago, would have died years ago without beta-blockers, stents, angioplasties, pacemakers, exotic medications, well, now they're dying all at once." John

Back in the 1940s, when we started firing off atomic bombs to test them, this pulse wave was first noticed. Not much back then with those primitive weapons, but it was there. And here's the key thing: there were no solid-state electronics back in the 1940s, everything was still vacuum tubes, so it was rare for the small pulses set off by those first bombs to damage anything.

Folks began to sit down along the curb, leaning against the odd assortment of old vehicles folks had retrofitted to function again after the EMP burst had blown out the electronics.

Anyone with even the remotest understanding of EMP and the threat to the nation should have been going insane before it hit.