Quotes About Technology

The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement.

Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and wondrous possibility of actually becoming one human race.

Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space.

In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.

A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.

Now that corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance or change in technology is an opening for them to further restrict or mistreat its users.

The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance in science, or art or literature, or technology in the last 500 years.

I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.

In the marketplace, design is your greatest differentiator once everything becomes comparable in terms of technology and quality.

The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change, so do the former.

Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.

One of the missions of Google[x] is to use technology to get technology out of the way

No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.

When a technology is replaced by another technology, the previous technology either becomes art or it dies.

There are dangers, but only dangers if people don't understand where technology is taking us.

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.

I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects.

Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.

We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts.

Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.

In general in technology, if you own a platform that's valuable, you can monetize it.