Quotes About Technology

Researchers from Harvard and the University of Virginia did an experiment in which they gave people a choice to be alone in a room, without anything—devices, books, papers, phones—or get an electric shock. 67 percent of men chose an electric shock.

Yet our appointment with sleep is one we don't seem to mind missing, day after day, night after night. When we think of sleep as an actual appointment-- a meeting of sorts, with ourselves-- we're much more likely to grant it the time it deserves. Given that we now set alarms on our smartphones and smartwatches for things of much less importance, the work-down call is a great idea to adopt.

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Another product that's gotten a big response is Chrona, created by Ultradia. It's a memory-foam insert that you slip inside your pillowcase, where it tracks your sleep based on the movements of your head and torso. Ultradia cofounder Ben Bronsther says his goal is to build Chrona into a home polysomnography, or PSG, device, which can act as a full-fledged home sleep lab for users, with no uncomfortable wires and no overnight stays in a lab required.

Technology promises us greater control, choice, and convenience in every aspect of our lives-- how we shop, whom we date, our friendships, our heart rates, our schedules. But it also sells us the illusion that minutely mapping out and controlling our lives, even if it were possible, is a worthwhile goal-- which it's not. Sleep offers just the opposite. While it makes us better at things our culture celebrates-- performing and doing-- it also teaches us how to trust and let go.

Eighty percent of those she examined were found to have periods of "email apnea.

Those who can sit in a chair, undistracted for hours, mastering subjects and creating things will rule the world—while the rest of us frantically and futilely try to keep up with texts, tweets, and other incessant interruptions.

But, if we let it, technology can also add a lot of noise and distraction that get in the way of our most fundamental creative capabilities—instead of freeing us, it can consume us. What

Sherry Turkle, MIT professor and author of Alone Together, has written about the cost of constantly documenting—i.e., photographing—our lives. These interruptions, she writes, "make it hard to settle into serious conversations with ourselves and with other people because emotionally, we keep ourselves available to be taken away from everything." And by so-obsessively documenting our experiences, we never truly have them.

Perhaps smartphones at a party should be treated like coats, usually taken to a back room or otherwise stowed away until guests are ready to leave—a signal, like taking off your coat, that you're happy to be here and you're going to stay awhile.

Whenever we look around the world, we see smart leaders – in politics, in business, in media – making terrible decisions. What they're lacking is not IQ, but wisdom. Which is no surprise; it has never been harder to tap into our inner wisdom, because in order to do so, we have to disconnect from all our omnipresent devices – our gadgets, our screens, our social media – and reconnect with ourselves.

The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but only the imagination and initiative of leaders, and the hardy industry of followers, can transform the possibilities into fact...Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

Because Google is so popular, it's conceited. Have you tried misspelling something lately? See the tone that it takes? "Um, did you mean . . . ?"

It is created to keep conceptual and semantic ambiguity at a minimum in an information and technological environment, which is something that is not always possible with traditional controlled vocabularies.

Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.

The distinction between artefact and organism dissolved in a Petri dish.

We need a new set of wheels. Something fast but inconspicuous will do," I said. "And not a hybrid. You know I hate the environment.

yes, it's possible to get repetitive stress injuries from heavy computer or video game use. But they are also caused by musical instruments and by the repetitive motion of sports, according to Warren Buckleitner, editor of Children's Software Review.

FWAs boost productivity. Stanford University economist Nicholas Bloom found that employees who telecommute are 13.5 percent more productive than employees who go into the office.

I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book ' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.