Quotes About Technology

Proportionally the cable was far thinner than a human hair—if it had been reduced to a hair's diameter

doesn't require very complicated math. One guy told me that if you just designed a clean data display, people were amazed.

Energy is the least of it. Since one percent of all electricity created is burned to make bitcoins, seven percent for saving sea level could be seen as a deal. But the physical problems are the stoppers.

They would understand the fundamental laws of the universe before they had even the slightest handle on society.

Jevons Paradox proposes that increases in efficiency in the use of a resource lead to an overall increase in the use of that resource, not a decrease.

The concerns and methods vary, but there is to it all, at bottom, a message that is unmistakably Luddistic: beware the technological juggernaut, reckon the terrible costs, understand the worlds being lost in the world being gained, reflect on the price of the machine and its systems on your life, pay attention to the natural world and its increasing destruction, resist the seductive catastrophe of industrialism.

C)ybernetics, the science of computers, comes from the Greek kubernetes, helmsman or governor, meaning simply that the machine is in charge.

Soll der Direktor ruhig in seinem Jugendstil-Haus wohnen, ihm schadet das nichts - ihm nicht. Er ist ein moderner Mensch und immun; seine tiefste Sehnsucht wird dadurch befriedigt, daß er auf Knöpfe drücken und an Hähnen drehen darf.

Det kan kastes meget tid bort på telegrafen.

To put it in terms of information theory, the new technology overwrites the old one. The technology saved under a new file name survives as a new species.

Mari began to suspect that this reflection was going to prove to be like that little computer paperclip assistant -- at first it helps, but after a while you just want the paperclip to die.

Chase, I've tussled with vibrators stronger than your charge throwers.

Cadeon, are you even listening to me?" "What? Yeah, was just thinking about…how http always turns to https when I carry out a transaction." "Exactly!" Good save.

nix: Do it, or the pictures go live! Witch shakes her fist at the sky, crying, Damn you, Valkyrie! Damn you and your digital ways!

Then, with grave formality, he unsheathed his sword. How old is that thing? Have you had it carbon dated? He looked aghast, as if she'd insulted his grandmother. Hey, no disrespecting The Sword. Besides, it's only three or four centuries old. Only? I would think that technology has improved since then. Why wouldn't you get a new one? I'm on my way to, remember? Try to keep up, halfling.

Cryptology used to be the realm of linguists. Now it's dominated by the geeks." She said this proudly, as if she was one among them. "We're going to rule the world, you know?" What Holly didn't understand was that when she said things like this, she didn't sound like a geek—she sounded like a Valkyrie.

Lucia replied: I'm about 2 go play Tomb Raider . . . but it's REAL. Bet U wish U were here. HOOKER!

We passed a boy's room, decorated with a space theme. Jackson's light shone over wallpaper depicting the galaxy and intricate mobiles of the planets dangling from the ceiling. Space shuttle posters adorned the walls. High-tech-looking computers and video game consoles were neatly organized. Jackson gave a harsh laugh. "I've never been in a nerdery before.

Plutonium is the darling and the demon of the nuclear age.

From 1952 to 1989, Rocky Flats manufactures more than seventy thousand plutonium triggers, at a cost of nearly $4 million apiece. Each one contains enough breathable particles of plutonium to kill every person on earth.

You know about Star Trek? came out of Stark's mouth before his brain could stop it. Again, the warrior shrugged. We do have the satellite.

You know about Star Trek? came out of Stark's mouth before his brain could stop it. Again, the warrior shrugged. We do have satellite.

Today's young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve it. I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.

Take a stress pill and think things over-- HAL in 2001