Quotes About Technology

In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their children and make precious little time available for their offspring, preferring instead to hire in childcare and shower them with the latest and most expensive gadgets.

The more everything gets digitalised, the more precious the live experience of going to the theatre is.

The net is a very precious thing. I hate it when people discuss measures to limit it.

At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.

The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.

For people who invest in bitcoin, the allure is precisely that: It's not backed by a central government. So it's not manipulatable by central government.

Generally speaking, if you control matter more precisely, you can get more efficiency out of any process.

I wanted to feel that precision and control and then try to apply it to tele. That's what I've looked for in my gear development through the years, and today, tele is very precise, very high-performance.

ThinThread was not the program of record of my predecessor, Ken Minihan, OK. I did not make ThinThread the program of record while I was director. After I left in 2005, Keith Alexander also chose not to make ThinThread the program of record.

I won't even try to predict the specifics, but I think the ebook - as a medium - could be a game-changer.

Not only have computers changed the way we think, they've also discovered what makes humans think - or think we're thinking. At least enough to predict and even influence it.

In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict.

There's a company in Boston called Ginger IO that has a smartphone app that can predict, two days before you get depressed, that you're going to get depressed.

If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.

There's no way anybody could have predicted how fast this industry would take off.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

Email did precisely what I predicted, back in 1978, it took over the postal mail process and system of writing letters.

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

When TV came, people said who will go to theatres to watch movies? When the Internet came, they said the same. And now it's the digital media... The doomsday predictions are always there but I don't think people will stop going to cinema halls because that is one experience you can't get at home.

Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.

As the coding movement continues to grow, the common narrative of the white male geek as the predominant influencer on geek culture will erode.

I've had a really hard time dealing with 35mm. I greatly prefer HD.

I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game.