Quotes About Technology

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.

Saying that genetics could be dangerous is like saying fire is hot. Warning that soon everyone will be able to hack the genome is like predicting, back in early caveman days, that soon everyone will have fire.

The biggest lie of all is the notion that robots don't take jobs, they create jobs. The robots don't do that— the humans do.

The Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution are intertwined much like all chicken-and-egg problems. One couldn't have happened without the other. Social change sometimes triggers technological change; sometimes it's the other way around. But they always go hand in hand. No technological revolution fails to be directly connected to a social revolution, either just before or just after.

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

The trouble of the Wersgorix was that they had gone too far. They had made combat on the ground obsolete, and were ill trained, ill equipped, when it happened. True, they possessed fire-beams, as well as force shields to stop those same fire-beams. But they had never thought to lay down caltrops.

An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications. Or else a mouse is a transistorized elephant.

Robotics is never yet got to where live brains can be altogether replaced, except in bureaucrats.

Their roaring machines filled the silence of their own deserts, gouged the quiet face of their own moon, shook the planets with a senseless fury of meaningless energy. They were the conquerors, and it never occurred to them that an ancient peace and stillness could be worth preserving.

So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way...

MAN "behaving" like ROBOTS and ROBOTS "evolving" like MAN.............we are fast reaching the point of convergence of the two.

I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.

we have to create machines to allow us to continue creating machines becouse what machines are never going to do is to create machines

Up to the moment of this writing… the Nazi concentration camp system still remains a unicum, both in its extent and its quality. At no other place or time has one seen a phenomenon so unexpected and so complex: never have so many human lives been extinguished in so short a time, and with so lucid a combination of technological ingenuity, fanaticism, and cruelty.

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

The most important global requirement today is our need for more data.

PL1, "the fatal disease", belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.

Technology is dominated by two types of people those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.

You can't write poetry on the computer.

Talking on a cell phone distracts motorists as much as having a blood alcohol level of .08%, and it's shockingly common. Some studies report that as many as 10% of drivers on the road are talking on their phones at any given moment. If your state has yet to ban cell phone use while driving, it's likely that it will in the near future.

2014 Tech Trends: Mass personalization at scale, big data business models, and augmented humanity." (2013)

Data is the foundation of Digital Business. Every touch point, every click, every byte of digital exhaust." (2013)

The Sangam Corpus is one body of literature that could possibly represent the ethos of the IVC [Indus Valley Civilization] such as maritime trade, eminence of crafts and skills, technology and knowledge, spread of literacy, Mother Goddess worship, participatory festivals and pass-time activities, secular orientation, enjoyment associated with group-bathing, place of flora and fauna in narratives, writing and graffiti skills.