Quotes About Technology

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into the air, but you could land the thing, and not only that, but you could change direction in the air! The whole sport of high-performance

Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He has constructed a complicated social machine to administer the technical machine he built. The more powerful and gigantic the forces are which he unleashes, the more powerless he feels himself as a human being. He is owned by his creations, and has lost ownership of himself.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.

looking for the next thing to do or the newest gadget to use is only a means of protecting oneself from being close to oneself or to another person.

The "tourist" with his camera is an outstanding symbol of an alienated relationship to the world. Being constantly occupied with taking pictures, actually he does not see anything at all, except through the intermediary of the camera. The camera sees for him, and the outcome of his "pleasure" trip is a collection of snapshots, which are the substitute for an experience which he could have had, but did not have.

Nothing that comes through synthesizrs can fix you, or give you your fix. Nothing here.

We learned the value of research in World War II.

I don't know if I've owned a piece of technology that I hated - I don't think I would have owned it then.

A computer can be more harmful than a gun and more useful than a pen.

dès lors que l'on a la technologie adéquate et un bon prétexte pour contrôler, on contrôlera.

The radio, I've told over and again, was always another school for my mind. I listened to the radio all my young life, seriously and continuously, changing my focus, I guess, as I changed. The TV must serve the same purpose now for kids.

A smart city is an intelligent town that provides enormous possibilities for human growth through art, culture, social, architectural, economic, political, environmental, and scientific flowering with the optimal mix of nature, technology, humanity, and arts.

Compassion, kindness and empathy are the components of higher human intelligence and to be true intelligent, artificial intelligence must incorporate them in the system.

One of the key algorithms of compassionate artificial intelligence is Mother-Infant Inter-brain Synchrony algorithm, which mimics the brain-to-brain synchrony of gaze, facial expressions, touch and heart rhythms of mother and child.

The ethical AI systems must learn not discriminate and not to manipulate any one based on race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, marital status, genetic or medical information. Must understand its own misuse or misconduct limits and the recertification mechanisms.

One of the questions I hear most often regarding my plan to read the OED from cover to cover is "Why don't you just read it on the computer?" I usually respond as if the questions was "Why don't you just slump yourself on the couch and watch TV for the year?" which is not quite an appropriate reponse. It is not so much that I am anicomputer; I am resolutely and stubbornly pro-book.

Telephone books are, like dictionaries, already out of date the moment they are printed....

What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?

China is also believed to be behind hacks of Anthem insurance (80 million records), Marriott (400 million records), and Equifax's 146 million credit records covering nearly every adult in America.78

You have to kind of salute the Chinese for what they did," noted Director of National Intelligence James Clapper after the OPM breach.80 From an intelligence perspective, it was a masterstroke.

Iran's offensive cyber operations have focused on destructive attacks, including a 2012 attack that destroyed thirty thousand Saudi Arabian computers91 and a 2014 attack that wiped hard drives at the Sands Casino in Las Vegas.

Cyberspace, by contrast, is manmade and inherently insecure. The Internet was never designed with security in mind.

In cyberspace, there are no mountains or oceans to protect people or their assets from others. Good neighborhoods and dangerous ones are unavoidably connected. We are all geographically unlucky.