Quotes About Technology

Storing information means increasing the complexity of the mechanism.

If current predictions of population growth prove accurate and patterns of human activity on the planet remain unchanged, science and technology may not be able to prevent either irreversible degradation of the environment or continued poverty for much of the world. —ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON AND U.S. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 1992

Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know. It is a way of remembering our true nature, which is essentially joyful and peaceful.

But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I'm in the car.

The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

I declare! Sometimes it seems to me that every time a new piece of machinery comes into the door some of our wits fly out the window!

If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.

quite the same as approving of it. She wondered, for instance, how Columbus or Magellan would react if they could see them all sitting in comfortable chairs watching a movie in the sky as they crossed the ocean insulated from wind, tides, storm and distance, and without any decent sense of awe. One ought, she felt, to suffer just a little. Not much but a little.

scientists are using advanced genomic theories and technologies to create a new racial science that claims to divide the human species into natural groups without the taint of racism.

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

Technology favors horrible people.

Every bit of software wants you to be "social." What ever happened to being grumpy and alone in your writer's fugue?

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

Cell phones are not a sign of power, they're a sign of subservience.

The woman of my dreams knows how to break into systems.

It's easy to cry "bug" when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to co-exist peacefully.

high levels of time spent engaging in media can have a negative impact on romantic relationships, specifically on levels of relational aggression.

To be numb to another's pain—to be acculturated to violence—is arguably one of the worst consequences our technological advances have wrought.

Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds.

Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone.

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the Universe and move bits of it about.

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.