Quotes About Technology

I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end."

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second-rate technology, who led them into it in the first place.

Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.

Douglas Coupland

TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.

In 1996, Eastman Kodak was a hundred-year-old powerhouse with one hundred forty thousand employees and a valuation of twenty-eight billion dollars. Yet a mere sixteen years later, the company was filing for bankruptcy, a T. Rex dinosaur that had failed to fathom the disruptive power and game-changing impact of the digital photography revolution.

You have greater access to sanitation and clean water than ever before. To privacy, leisure, and artificial light. To transportation, communication, and computation. The list goes on and on.

As Yogi Berra once said: "It's tough to make predictions. Especially about the future." The experts in 1880 couldn't imagine a technology, a solution, that

could cite endless studies, but let me finish by quoting Nicholas Carr. His book, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, came out back in 2011.

the new incoming phone has to be

So I hired consultants to block all communication off the island, from landlines, cells, or computers. Cells can't get voice, text, e-mail, or Internet.

And Internet is incoming only," continued Knight. "Brain Trust scientists, and others on this island, can enter terms into a Google search bar, but that's the only way they can interact with the outside world. The results of their searches can be opened and downloaded, but it's one-way traffic only." He smiled. "None of this was easy to do, but it is quite foolproof.

We can't react in any meaningful way in this amount of time. But what about computers? For a computer, a half-second is a huge amount of time. So say you programmed a computer to see an uptick in a stock's price, send this information back to itself a half-second earlier, and put in a buy order." "I'm

In 1996, Eastman Kodak was a hundred-year-old powerhouse with one hundred forty thousand employees and a valuation of twenty-eight billion dollars. Yet a mere sixteen years later, the company was filing for bankruptcy, a T. Rex dinosaur that had failed to fathom the disruptive power and game-changing impact of the digital photography revolution. In

Hard science fiction. Mind-blowing, breathtaking, hard science fiction.

The more I immerse myself in science and technology, the greater my need to retreat back to nature. I find it easier to contemplate life and philosophy surrounded by this environment.

The mother of all fake news. You may have seen fake news before, but nothing like what I'm on the verge of perfecting. Soon, I'll be able to make videos showing sweet little Paigey here kicking puppies to death. Or screwing a roomful of tattooed bikers. Or praising Hitler. And the videos will look so real—so perfect—a forensic scientist will vouch for their authenticity. And seeing is believing. The potency of this tool will be astonishing.

Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near, have ruined me. As

short book in 2020, written by a man named Gordon Chang, entitled The Great U.S.—China Tech War. This

Have you ever tried taking a phone away from a teen, especially for an extended period?

Douglas E. Richards

Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Perhaps one sentence summed it up best, "The United States and China are locked in a cold tech war, and the winner will end up dominating the twenty-first century.