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Quotes About Technology

A Robbins Urban TBM 250. TBM stands for Tunnel Boring Machine.
~ Douglas E. Richards
whereby tiny chips were implanted in their brains, allowing them to communicate telepathically with each other and with Sage.
~ Douglas E. Richards
And just like with the cell phone, the replica is not only perfect, it even maintains the electron patterns of old texts, emails, and so on. Or, in the case of a man, the replica has every last neuronal pathway and memory intact. Along with whatever ineffable quality you call the spark of life.
~ Douglas E. Richards
She was especially interested in finding a way to rule in, or rule out, the existence of a soul. Above all else, this was the most fundamental question posed by the capabilities her father's technology made possible. His results so far seemed to indicate that one didn't exist. But absence of proof was not the same as proof of absence.
~ Douglas E. Richards
I don't know what weapons will be used to fight World War III.
~ Douglas E. Richards
The neural structure of our brains is constantly changing. So why do we think we can achieve AGI using immovable components?
~ Douglas E. Richards
Brilliant minds around the world are working to enhance the addictive properties of numerous products.
~ Douglas E. Richards
In the West, the phone had become a drug even more addictive than opioids. In a culture becoming ever more secular,
~ Douglas E. Richards
In the West, the phone had become a drug even more addictive than opioids. In a culture becoming ever more secular, the phone had become a god.
~ Douglas E. Richards
The duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium-133 atom." This is measured by atomic clocks that are accurate to within one second over a period of fifteen billion years—roughly the age of the universe.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Many of you have lost touch with nature, with simple pleasures. No matter how much technology you have, all you crave is the next advance. Your lives have become hollow, meaningless, and unfulfilling.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Recently proposed algorithms that involved hiding an encryption key at the intersection point of a multi-dimensional lattice should prove unbreakable, even for a quantum computer.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Douglas E. Richards
~ Burying the remote
My four-year-old niece has had a kids touchscreen tablet since she was old enough to drool. While I was there, I handed her a kids magazine. She had no idea what to do with it. She kept swiping the cover with her finger to try to scroll through additional pages. There was a part she wanted to see bigger, so she tried to touch it and splay out her fingertips to enlarge it.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Sort of like Alexander Graham Bell putting the finishing touches on the world's first and only phone . . . and then getting an incoming call.
~ Douglas E. Richards
As if the idea of not having a phone on and by one's side every waking instant was inconceivable.
~ Douglas E. Richards
We've all heard Arthur C. Clarke's famous quote by now," said Hoyer. "It's become so common, I think they're printing it on fortune cookies. But it's also true." "You mean, 'any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic'?" said Reed.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Instead, she had revealed the existence of what everyone else recognized as the perfect skeleton key, able to unlock every digital door in existence.
~ 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." —Carrie Snow "Beam
~ Douglas E. Richards
Mark Zuckerberg is an optimist, whereas Elon Musk and Bill Gates are very much the opposite, as was the late Stephen Hawking.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Douglas E. Richards
~ artificial lantern
Which means he has tech that can block his image from registering on cameras.
~ Douglas E. Richards
cell phones were the ultimate distraction, carefully designed and evolved to become as addictive as possible.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Mainly due to social media," replied Brad. "It's the most divisive technology the world has ever seen. It's polarizing and promotes our worst tendencies. Mistrust, tribalism, zealotry. And it fosters and aids in the mobilization of those intent on violence.
~ Douglas E. Richards