Quotes About Technology

Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.

el fracaso del marxismo no está en que haya sido mal aplicado a la realidad, sino a sus propias bases epistemológicas y gnoseológicas, por decirlo de algún modo, y al hecho de que Marx jamás pudo imaginar el potencial económico, tecnológico y democrático que encerraba el capitalismo, el mercado, la libertad.

Much as we resent that, it was natural that once they had achieved a military technology that was superior to our own, they would take what they wished from us.

It was a war requiring the use of strategy as well as of tactics - but, above all, it was a war that could only be won by the use of superior technology and superior skills in command.

The French Army expended more artillery ammunition in September 1914 than it had done in the whole of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. Total French production of the 75 mm shell in 1914 amounted to 14,000 shells a day, at a time when one single battery of 75 mm guns could easily shoot off 1,000 shells a day.

Where did these things come from? What are they made of and which one was made with a technology that inflicts minimal damage on the earth? Can I buy pens with the same mentality with which a person digs wild leeks?

Electron microscopes let us wander the remote universe of our own cells.

The encryption program was 126-bit,

He set the photo aside, revealing the gun safe. He'd recently upgraded to a biometrics model.

First order of business: downloading and installing the Pasco forensic tool from Foundstone.

Cynthia's face popped onto the screen, a gorgeous, blue-eyed blonde with a dazzling smile. Mindy thought of the baby and how pretty he or she would have been.

there's laptops

She was ditching Facebook and going back to real books.

She'd stopped checking Facebook when the posts about Evan started appearing in her feed, mostly horrible and vile. She was ditching Facebook and going back to real books. Mindy

But that was the world now, everyone in their little silo, broadcasting versions of their lives from a screen, onto the screens of others.

It's rare that someone doesn't have a device clutched in his hand, isn't staring at a screen all the time, relationships scrolling out in bubbles, text disembodied from voice and body, language pared down to barest meaning and, so, far less meaningful than actual conversation. How did we let them do it, separate us from each other while making us seem more connected than ever? How did we let them strip voice and touch and tone from our interactions?

Pointing and clicking like Annie Leibovitz

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.

My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it... - They know nothing.

On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS

like swatting flies with a laser cannon. The aim's a bit tricky, but it sure takes care of the flies.

Modern warfare wasn't supposed to have this much blood in it. The weapons were supposed to cook everyone neatly, like eggs in their shells. (Mark Vorkosigan's first experience with warfare, on seeing Miles Vorkosigan splattered before him)

From spaceman to caveman in three days," she meditated aloud. "How we imagine our civilization is in ourselves, when it's really in our things.

Damned technocrats. Nothing but horse doctors with a more expensive set of toys.