Quotes About Technology

It is not enough that men are not slaves; if social conditions further the existence of automatons, the result will not be love of life, but love of death.

Some day perhaps our time will be known as the age of irony. Not the witty irony of the eighteenth century, but the stupid or malignant irony of a crude age of technological progress and cultural regression.

Ma mõtlesin, et elame konservide ajastul.'' ''Konservide? Kuidas nii?'' Ravic osutas ajalehtedele. ''Meil pole enam tarvis mõtelda. Kõik on ette mõeldud, ette mälutud, ette tunnetatud. Konservid. Jääb üle ainult avada. Kolm korda päevas koju kätte toimetatud. Midagi pole enam tarvis ise külvata, kasvatada, pole tarvis küsimuste, kahtluste ja igatsuste tulel keeta. Konservid.

General Electric rather miraculously came back with a bid of $554,000. But Westinghouse, whose AC system was inherently cheaper and more efficient, bid $399,000. The exposition went with Westinghouse, and helped change the history of electricity.

It is true that in this time people set their faces hard for photographs, partly from custom, partly because of deficits in photographic technology, but this crowd might not have smiled for the better part of a century. The women seem suspended in a state somewhere between melancholy and fury and are surrounded by old men in strange beards that look as if someone had dabbed glue at random points on their faces, then hurled buckets of white hair in their direction.

There were always those passengers who came aboard bearing grudges against the modern age.

the Kodak being a new kind of portable camera that eliminated the need for lens and shutter adjustments.

Where in May 1915 the navy had only thirty U-boats, by 1917 it had more than one hundred, many larger and more powerful than Schwieger's U-20 and carrying more torpedoes.

He joined the crew of the Lake Champlain, a small steam-powered cargo ship owned by the Beaver Line of Canada but subsequently acquired by the Canadian Pacific Railway. He was its second officer in May 1901, when it became the first merchant vessel to be equipped with wireless.

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Torpedoes were expensive, and heavy. Each cost up to $ 5,000— over $ 100,000 today— and weighed over three thousand pounds, twice the weight of a Ford Model T.

THE SUBMARINE as a weapon had come a long way by this time, certainly to the point where it killed its own crews only rarely.

The wheel had consumed 28,416 pounds of bolts in its assembly;

In this time when writing long letters was everyday practice, men of normal sensibility saw these cards as the most crabbed of media, little better than telegrams

The exposition went with Westinghouse, and helped change the history of electricity.

The Lusitania remained a passenger liner, but with the hull of a battleship.

During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time.

Not only this, but through television and telephone we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face." That word: television. In 1900.

One cannot possibly get accurate bombing on a selected target in this way.

It was truly a transitional moment: There he was, at the cusp of the twentieth century, using the telephone to send a telegram.

She tooled around the city in an electric car.

If you worked to advance the interests of the machine, the machine paid you back.

Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of, and you welcome them and resent the new things

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO You like music? How would I not