Quotes About Technology

David Sosnowski

the Big Three had shut down their assembly lines to retool from subcompacts to behemoths with tanks measured not in gallons, but Gulf wars.

The Art of Computer Programming

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.

As we distance ourselves further from the natural world, we are increasingly surrounded by and dependent on our own inventions. We become enslaved by the constant demands of technology created to serve us.

Limbic capitalism refers to a technologically advanced but socially regressive business system in which global industries, often with the help of complicit governments and criminal organizations, encourage excessive consumption and addiction.

Y en esta nueva sociedad de un modo u otro todos acabaremos siendo un poco millennials, no importa en qué año hayamos nacido.

domain in which HR tends to be the weakest is in understanding and applying technology to build HR

Connecting people though technology • Aligning strategy, culture, practices, and behavior • Sustaining change

But children nowadays don't believe in magic. They are forever watching TV and playing computer games. They never look to the skies any more.

Is there a cost to this booming virtual social life? Does it impact our kids' person-to-person skills? Emerging research shows it does and underlines the need to balance tech enthusiasm with encouraging our kids to use age-old practices like turning toward each other, face-to-face.

We should be cautiously open to the spiritual and non-rational, and skeptical of the more invisible magical thinking—what we might call "magical reason"—pervading secular thought and experience in modern society. Science and technology are for most people a new religion, and their orthodoxies are believed with the same fervor.

Apparently, for some reason known only to themselves, these people... have chosen to cling to hydrocarbon-fueled power generation well past the point at which they could have replaced it with nuclear generation.

the next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape

Our task is to learn how to build smart rooms—that is, how to build networks that make us smarter, especially since, when done badly, networks can make us distressingly stupider.

Transform the medium by which we develop, preserve, and communicate knowledge, and we transform knowledge.

Science had been a type of publishing and now it is becoming a network.

After just three days, the system so mastered the game that it was able to beat the prior version of AlphaGo a hundred games out of a hundred.

We don't use these technologies because they are huge, connected, and complex. We use them because they work.

Yet about an AlphaGo move that left some commenters literally speechless, one go master, Fan Hui, said, "It's not a human move. I've never seen a human play this move." Then, softly, "So beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful.

in this way, artificial neural networks are like the brain's very real neural network. These networks can be insanely complicated.

Our newly capacious machines can get closer to understanding it than we can, and they, as machines, don't really understand anything at all.

a more open and honest appraisal of the true nature of Silicon Valley and its opportunities as well as the many problems.