Quotes About Technology

Defect-free software does not exist.

After the probe does its thing, the Jarada make contact: they want to talk to the Captain, and are offended that they can't immediately speak to the person in charge, which would explain why the Jarada destroyed every planet in the Dell Technical Support system.

I will never understand why the Internet seems to take away the basic humanity of most people,* and allows—no, enables*—them to say things that they'd never say to another person face-to-face.

Ci separammo nell'età della vita in cui si ha meno tempo per il prossimo. L'odierna facilità degli scambi epistolari, in questo, non aiuta: chi scrive più lettere, nell'era della cartolina? Vedo già tutta la seconda metà del diciottesimo secolo e buon terzo del diciannovesimo scuotere la testa.

Apartment houses, public transportation, and schools tell us something about the technical development of a society. They do not tell us whether the members of that society are suppressed subjects or free workers, whether they are rational or irrational men and women.

Foi Galileu, não Nero, quem assentou os fundamentos da tecnologia; Pasteur, e não Napoleão, quem combateu as enfermidades; Freud, e não Schickgruber, quem sondou as profundidades psíquicas. Foram esses cientistas, em suma, que asseguraram a nossa existência. Os outros apenas abusaram das realizações de grandes homens para destruir o processo vital. As raízes da ciência natural penetram mais fundo que qualquer transitório tumulto fascista.

analog hazz?n zevkine varan?n, dijital detoksa ihtiyac? kalmaz. (dokunman?n gücü üzerine, 10)

The digital sunset always looks better than the real thing, always. Because a sunset generated by the basic package of yellow sun and blue sky is unreliable. Today it may be stunning, hypnotic. Tomorrow it may be lifeless and dull, a white sky scorched with yellow. Tomorrow the sky will be velvet.

Kids today have the attention span of high-speed lint.

The affect heuristic simplifies our lives by creating a world that is much tidier than reality. Good technologies have few costs in the imaginary world we inhabit, bad technologies have no benefits, and all decisions are easy. In the real world, of course, we often face painful tradeoffs between benefits and costs.

The thought of accepting the large sure loss is too painful, and the hope of complete relief too enticing, to make the sensible decision that it is time to cut one's losses. This is where businesses that are losing ground to a superior technology waste their remaining assets in futile attempts to catch up. Because defeat is so difficult to accept, the losing side in wars often fights long past the point at which the victory of the other side is certain, and only a matter of time.

The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory.

The increase in man's power over his environment has not been accompanied by a concomitant improvement of his ability to make rational use of that power

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

But the agricultural, industrial, and technological revolutions changed all that, and the resulting explosion of personal liberty has created a bewildering array of options, alternatives, choices, and decisions that our ancestors never faced. For the very first time, our happiness is in our hands.

He always made a point of mentioning that he was reading the Odyssey on his iPad. Books are an obsolete technology! he'd say. Get with the times. Homer on an iPad, now that's an adventure.

In an era where the word communication reigns, where an unlimited mass of information can be accessed within a few seconds, we complain about having lost contact with our body and with other human beings. We suffer from extreme solitude, we suffer from no longer touching each other, we suffer from the "virtualization" of our feelings, the expression of our emotions, and our sensorality.

America's innate uneasiness with death from above. It ill accords with the values of a democratic republic.

In 1944, B-17 bomber formations dropped 9,070 bombs in order to hit one German building. In 1967, F-105 jet fighter-bombers used 176 munitions to knock out a single North Vietnamese building. By 1991, a smart F-16 fighter-bomber could do the job with thirty bombs, or just one, if the bomb was smart too.

El conocimiento es neutral, la tecnología no lo es.

El debate no puede ser sobre si la ciencia es buena o mala, sino más bien al servicio de quién debe estar, aceptando que el conocimiento es patrimonio de la humanidad. El conocimiento obtenido por la ciencia es de un valor ético neutral, pero no así la tecnología, ya que su utilización puede hacerse con fines moralmente acceptables o reprobables.

Una tecnología implica una ideología, ya que afecta a la forma en que pensamos y actuamos y nos obliga a escoger varias formas de proceder. Nuevos artefactos generan su propia dinámica con consecuencias difíciles de predecir. Los inventores del automóvil no se imaginaban las consecuencias, y tampoco el inventor del World Wide Web podía imaginar la transformación social y cultural que está causando.

The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.

I mean I've seen 3D films so far and I think it's a long way to go before they replace actors. It's a funny thing with 3D, I haven't quite got it yet. Yet.