Quotes About Technology

Of course, a first-time computer user cannot map what they see on a screen to a prior digital experience. However, their cognitive processing of any digital artifact will still be based on natural language. Linguistically associating physical-world metaphors to on-screen actions and objects allows them to participate in a human-to-computer interaction.

In a computer-to-human conversation, there is less surrounding context than in a natural language. So… our cognition fails us in this quiz, and the best we can do is guess. This is why careful conceptual grammar construction is the foundation of quality IxD.

Islamic Jihad. Burdened with two heavy cases filled with electronic gear, he greeted Sarah with an unambiguously frigid kiss. Eli Lavon would later describe it as

six gun-type bombs, the last such weapons ever built.

Computer files are a bit like sin, Excellency. They can be absolved, but they never really go away. - Gabriel Allon

It's hard to go old-school in the modern world. Gabriel Allon

the economy of movement of a battery-powered toy.

What would normally be good news instead laid bare a pesky side effect of innovation: greater efficiency required fewer workers, leaving rural communities with little to support themselves.

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas," noted Henry David Thoreau, "but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate."7

Violence had lost the personal touch, the pride had gone out of self-preservation, and mere chickenshit possibilities of improved technology replaced it.

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.

People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4 000 meters.

Once upon a time, automobiles were central to romantic life. It was once estimated that almost 40 percent of marriages in America were proposed in automobiles. Today, a third of marriages result from meeting up online and through dating apps.

So often, over the history of the oil industry, it is said that technology has gone about as far as it can and that the "end of the road" for the oil industry is in sight. And then, new innovations dramatically expand capabilities. This pattern would be repeated again and again.

By 2050, natural gas demand is estimated to be 60 percent higher than it is today.

I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.

People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium. [We] need to pay some more attention to that, because it's actually kind of fragile.

If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.

Wagamama. Text messaging aficionados might like to note that this is one of the most satisfying words you can possibly type.

It was 8am. My phone was ringing. What kind of society do we live in where someone can make your phone ring at 8am? There should be rules.

Economic growth and technological change are accompanied by what the great economist Joseph Schumpeter called creative destruction. They replace the old with the new. New sectors attract resources away from old ones. New firms take business away from established ones. New technologies make existing skills and machines obsolete.

A remarkable thing about new technologies in the Roman period is that their creation and spread seem to have been driven by the state. This is good news, until the government decides that it is not interested in technological development—and all-too-common occurrence due to the fear of creative destruction.

people need to rethink the concept of work.

it is clear that workers with few technical skills or other in-demand skills likely will face rough going in the future.44