Quotes About Technology

Good morning, Colonel Tooke. This is Athena. I am ready for my first lesson.

It was difficult not to think of the Central Computer as a living entity, localised in a single spot, though actually it was the sum total of all the machines in Diaspar.

With the historic abolition of long-distance charges on 31 December 2000, every telephone call became a local one, and the human race greeted the new millennium by transforming itself into one huge, gossiping family. Like

I'm lighting a cigarette—I've always wanted to smoke in a space suit.

Arthur C. Clarke

magnetostriction

Any fool could shuffle genes and most did.

The newborn Athena, suddenly knowing far more about the future than the humans who had created her, had immediately been faced with a dilemma.

Orice tehnologie suficient de avansat? nu poate fi deosebit? de magie.

The manuals that Otto gave me said that you couldn't hurt those things if you dropped them from the top of the Trump Tower. Besides," he added, "they aren't even armed yet. Right, Herr Admiral?

after Hal had refused to open the Pod Bay door.

a gentle tickling on Floyd's wrist announced an incoming call.

Now, what did "feel" really mean to a computer? Another very good question, but hardly one to be considered at that particular moment. Then

Since their base number system is octal, the range for the comparatives is between one and seven.

The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry or depressing its contents seemed to be

Verdaderamente que esa palabra de periódico resultaba un anacrónico pegote en la era de la electrónica. El texto era puesto al momento automáticamente cada hora

Floyd sometimes wondered if the Newspad, and the fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man's quest for perfect communications. Here he was, far out in space, speeding away from Earth at thousands of miles an hour, yet in a few milliseconds he could see the headlines of any newspaper he pleased. (That very word newspaper, of course, was an anachronistic hangover into the age of electronics.)

Someone once said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

British Interplanetary Society.

Do you realize that every day something like five hundred hours of radio and TV pour out over the various channels? If you went without sleep and did nothing else, you could follow less than a twentieth of the entertainment that's available at the turn of a switch! No wonder that people are becoming passive sponges—absorbing but never creating.

As soon as anyone on Earth could see and talk to anyone else by pressing a button, most of the need for cities vanished.

Miraculous though they were—perhaps the supreme triumph of the science that had produced them—they were the creations of a sick culture, a culture that had been afraid of many things.

El anciano lo miraba con firmeza a través del abismo de los siglos; en sus palabras pesaba la inmensurable sabiduría de una larga vida en contacto con hombres y máquinas.

Lo que la naturaleza puede hacer, también el hombre lo hace, a su modo.