Quotes About Technology

La melancolía en Nietzsche no solamente es el demonio malvado al que le pide que no se enfade porque lo reta y lo enfrenta a su voluntas, sino también la náusea ante el temor de que los grandes avances de la modernidad, con su ciencia y su tecnología, puedan socavar los fundamentos de la cultura. Para Nietzsche los humanos están sumergidos en ese dolor superior y extraño que puede darle sentido a la vida.

El teléfono celular es un amuleto portátil como los que producían efectos curativos en tiempos antiguos, dotado de un inmenso poder simbólico.

In software, you can't know what's going to work, so, as Chuck put it, "When you build any new product, there's no sure way to know if the dogs are going to eat the dog food.

It seems ironic that, in this information age, millions of people feel such a lack of control over their lives. Obviously, the communications revolution has done little to overcome, and may even have contributed to, a feeling of detachment and disconnectedness with circumstances and other people.

So rapid was the Ottoman assimilation of cannon technology that by the 1440s they had evidently acquired the unique ability, widely commented on by eyewitnesses, to cast medium-size barrels on the battlefield in makeshift foundries. Murat transported gunmetal to the Hexamilion and cast many of his long guns on the spot. This allowed extraordinary flexibility during siege warfare:

In teams where there are significant power differences, when team members with less power are better able to speak up, the team has more success implementing new technology changes.

Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.

By 2000, the rate of GIS development had risen above the normal growth trend of institutional management skills. This means that systems are now more capable than people, and the ordinary incremental growth rate in skills within an organization does not keep up with developments in technology. Recently, the relative curve of GIS development has leveled off somewhat, but management still has a lot of institutional learning to do before truly making use of the full capabilities of GIS.

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

reading their books on electronic gizmos

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.

Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)

No doubt about it: numbers are the future. The world's been learning to count since the days of chivalry ended and it's only going to get worse. We're about to witness the end of everything that isn't quantifiable—honor, for example.

It's too pragmatic for me," Valenti said. "The know-how is good enough for technology, not for science.

He switched the gasper off quickly before it burned the toaster and the whole damn table. Too much power. Technology again. Technology was the asshole of science.

When the first atomic bomb was exploded successfully, Oppenheimer and Fermi flashed the code word: Baby satisfactorily born. A most befitting yell o triumph for the coming of age of technological civilization and for the death of culture. Since then hundreds of thousands of babies were satisfactorily born with defective genes or died of leukemia brought on by radiation. Compulsive creation, genius, what the hell do you want, clap censorship on science?

Morally speaking, the fathers of the hydrogen bomb had nothing to do with the latter. They were cracking not ethics, not culture, not our soul, but a scientific and technological problem.

This was however NOT the scientist's responsibility. Morally speaking, the fathers of the hydrogen bomb had nothing to do with the latter. They were cracking not ethics, not culture, not our soul, but a scientific and technological problem.

The use of the plough goes back to pre-Harappan times and one of the words frequently used for the plough – langala – is from Munda, a non-Aryan language.

Don't underestimate questions from the crowd technology has made voters more informed than ever.

Make sure you take some animation classes, because animation is pure filmmaking. You don't have to deal with the actors.

Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace.

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

We also hear of internet corporations cooperating readily in mass surveillance and receiving payments for turning over information to the government.