Quotes About Technology

The consequences of dependence on the horse in 1870 involved negative externalities unrecognized by GDP, including manure and urine distributed on the streets and the cost of the unlucky laborers assigned to clean up the tons of horse waste, not to mention the diversion of a substantial part of agricultural production to feed the ubiquitous horses, in 1870 numbering 8.6 million, or roughly one horse for every five people.

Computer technology has given us instant and cheaper access to more and more information. So naturally that's what we think we want. But what do we get? More information than we need and certainly more than we read. We are suffocating in that avalanche of paper, much of which just gets filed…unread. And most of those reports, proposals, printouts, projections that take so much time to do end up in the round file, the one under your desk.

they were expected to, well, to be sciencing by oh eight hundred.

Aristotle, around 350 BCE, raised the possibility of machines replacing humans: For if every instrument could accomplish its own work, obeying or anticipating the will of others, like the statues of Daedalus, or the tripods of Hephaestus, which, says the poet, "of their own accord entered the assembly of the Gods"; if, in like manner, the shuttle would weave and the plectrum touch the lyre without a hand to guide them, chief workmen would not want servants, nor masters slaves.

Apple bought Siri from its creator, SRI (Stanford Research Institute) International, which had developed it with government funding from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) between 2003 and 2008.

unemployed people described "have been superannuated less by age than by newly invented machines.

The "technology is taking over our lives" narrative is the most recent incarnation of a labor-saving-machinery narrative that has scared people since the Industrial Revolution.

Eventually, computers and robots will run things. Humans will manage those machines, but that doesn't require courage or strength, or any characteristics like those. In fact, men are outliving their usefulness

Peter came to understand that the roots of Western technological achievement lay in the freeing of men's minds. He grasped that it had been the Renaissance and the Reformation, neither of which had ever come to Russia, which had broken the bonds of the medieval church and created an environment where independent philosophical and scientific inquiry as well as wide-ranging commercial enterprise could flourish.

his faster, more powerful battle cruisers would gobble up armored cruisers "like an armadillo let loose on an ant-hill.

New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.

terminal into compute mode, and made a quick calculation. "Seventy-seven microradians per second comes out to

The name "water filter" is misleading. The word filtered literally means only that the water has passed through a medium containing tiny holes or fine passageways that screen out suspended particles. When

I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.

So someday in the near future hopefully rather than having a foot or a leg amputated we'll just give you an injection of the cells and restore the blood flow. We've also created entire tubes of red blood cells from scratch in the laboratory. So there are a lot of exciting things in the pipeline.

In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in an auto accident and lose your kidney, we'd simply take a few skin cells and grow you up a new kidney. In fact this has already been done.

Monster cloud rising over Hiroshima, over the world — monstrous, mushrooming thing, sign of our age, symbol of our sin: growth, bigness, speed: grow, grow, grow — grow in a cancer, enlarge a factory, swell a city, balloon our bellies, speed life, fly to the moon, burst a bomb, shatter a people — explode the world.

The Aquarium is gone. Everywhere,giant finned cars nose forward like fish;a savage servilityslides by on grease.

We feel the machine slipping from our handsas if someone else were steering;if we see the light at the end of the tunnel,it's the light of the oncoming train.

The Dispatcher had played with his phones, calling from one to the other. Then he put them all down and announced that he had them on "hold," a curious expression since it was the first time in half an hour he hadn't been holding one.

I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?

When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.

We can put it in its proper perspective by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.