Quotes About Technology

What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.

When man made fire, he lifted himself up, over, and above the animals. Fire is actually too good for people. Let us sit in front of one of these tiny, gleaming blazes and drink a little gin.

Contemporary man, hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgets, has little contact with his inner world, concerns himself with outer, not inner space. But the Master Game is played entirely in the inner world, a vast and complex territory about which men know very little. The aim of the game is true awakening, full development of the powers latent in man. The

The spiritual level of a civilization can be measured by the amount of objective art it generates. By this criterion, our technological civilization is not much better than a gadget-infested barbarism.

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing ability without a pencil is no particular advantage.

According to Business Insider, VR headsets alone will grow from a $37 million dollar industry in 2015 to $2.8 billion in 2020—growing by a factor of 75. Goldman Sachs predicts revenue from all categories of VR including software will reach $110 billion by 2020, making the category bigger than the TV industry in its first five years. We

History shows that where gamers take people, everything else follows. There

By contrast, young people are spending more time on their phones. A new generation is emerging that considers their phones to be their personal computers. Simultaneously, it is becoming cool to not own a car at all.

old Google Glass monitored what people watched; now Google Everywhere monitors what they think. Although Glass came to know Scoble better than even his spouse, Everywhere knows him better than he knows himself.

You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it. Scott McNealy, co-founder, Sun Microsystems

3.5 billion networked products by 2015. Compare that to 1.7 billion networked PCs and it's clear that the "Internet of Things" has arrived.

On a visit to New York City, Robert Scoble posted on Highlight that he was going to Bloomingdale's to buy a certain brand of jeans. As he walked through the main entrance, a sales representative knew he was headed her way because she had seen his Highlight post. She recognized him by his user ID photo. Through Highlight's messaging feature she escorted Scoble to the jeans he had mentioned.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder MIT Media Labs

Many people do not yet realize it, but the modern car is as much a contextual tool as a smart phone is—only a lot bigger.

IBM estimates that 90 percent of the world's data was created in the last two years.

IBM estimates that 90 percent of the world's data was created in the last two years. As co-authors Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt stated in their exquisite photo book, The Human Face of Big Data, "Now, in the first day of a baby's life today, the world creates 70 times the data contained in the entire Library of Congress.

the time it took to get our smartphones out of our pockets and into our hands, scroll and click on our camera app, choose the right photo or video option and finally point and click is as long as 12 seconds.

His eye contact with his partner had improved. Scoble wasn't constantly staring at and tapping on the small screen of his phone, as he was so prone to do. Glass had improved the way we related to each other.

Without location, there is no context." And for Apple, without context there will be no leadership.

PintoFeed enables you to feed your pet remotely and check to see if Tabby or Rover is healthy and eating right.

The larger looming issue is the very real loss of personal privacy and the lack of transparency about how it happens. The marvels of the contextual age are based on a tradeoff: the more the technology knows about you, the more benefits you will receive.

but 20 years from now it will be bizarre if you walk into a store and the store doesn't know who you are.

Loic Le Meur, producer of LeWeb, Europe's largest tech conference, is an ardent fitness enthusiast and Quantified Self proponent. In August 2010, he suggested in a blog post that as people and mobile devices work together to provide highly personalized data, the human body itself becomes an Application Programming Interface (API), meaning that developers can now offer personalized mobile apps for each individual by letting their computer codes talk with each other.

While your Bluetooth-enabled toothbrush scans for cavities, you will be able to peruse messages that appear on the glass or see reminders of the medications you need to take.