Quotes About Technology

Information and intelligence is the fire and maneuver of the twenty-first century," says Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn

Today there is big money for those who can stealthily invade computer networks, or construct a secure botnet, and no modern military arsenal is complete without state-of-the-art malware.

How do you bomb a nation into the Stone Age when, in modern industrial terms, they are not that far removed from it?

And I saw a man- go up to one of the doors of the train and press a big button next to it and the doors were electric and they slid open and I liked that.

We have been so enthusiastic in our welcome as to be obsequious—to machines.

follow Churchill's admonition, "I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you,"123

What's the difference what you watch?" Praeger shot back. "When that stream of hypnotic electrons starts winging into your brain, you're finished, good-as-gone, condemned to hell. No matter what it is, if you don't move your eyes and set the pace yourself, your intellect is sentenced to death. The mind, you see, is like a muscle. For it to remain agile and strong, it must work.

The way modern medicine operates is like trying to diagnose what's wrong with your car by listening to the noises it makes instead of looking under the hood.

life in our modern era is little more than life in an open-air mind-control laboratory.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a French monk, Marcel Audiffren, invented the world's first electric-powered household refrigerator

Both the steamboat service to Albany and the Erie Canal were destined to be swiftly fleeting marvels, eclipsed by the next idea. Only seven years after the Seneca Chief brought whitefish to New York Harbor, the city's railroad age had begun. The

Now, at peace, Jordan has few resources but is full of plans. Mohammed Noufal observed with a smile, "All we need is Israel's technology, Egypt's workers, Turkey's water, and Saudi Arabia's oil, and I am sure we can build a paradise here.

The oldest-known permanent photograph, an image of a man leading a horse, dates from 1825.

One of the consequences of printing is that it tends to standardize language

It was one thing to talk of using technology to topple the authority of the aristocracy and the Church, but who or what would replace them? Diderot and the French revolutionaries had assumed it would be "the people." But as the nineteenth-century French historian Jules Michelet once wryly observed, "The people, in its highest ideal, is difficult to find in the people." As

By 1937, every British trawler had a wireless, electricity, and an echometer - the forerunner of sonar. If getting into fishing had required the kind of capital in past centuries that it cost in the twentieth century, cod would never have built a nation of middle-class, self-made entrepreneurs in New England.

the four great inventions—paper, compass, gunpowder, and printing

Parchment and papyrus documents could be easily altered, but paper documents could not.

the dissemination of information alone does not set people free, and a new information technology creates a new ruling class.

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. —MARSHALL MCLUHAN AND QUENTIN FIORE, The Medium Is the Massage, 1967

nuclear deterrents.

Circuit boards have foundations made of paper;

Sólo oprime este botón y puedes aumentar veinte veces el peso de un objeto. Ponlo en reversa y lo puedes hacer flotar. -¿En serio? -¿Estás loco? Es un bate de baseball envuelto en papel brillante, amigo. ¿Cómo podría alguien construir un bastón de gravedad?

For a century, Edison's light bulb was regarded as a beacon of American genius; then it became a 'climate criminal. That transformation is American decline in a nutshell.