Quotes About Technology

You have given birth to your successors, and it is your tragedy that you will never understand them—will never even be able to communicate with their minds.

We obtained another guinea pig, chloroformed it, and sent it through the transmitter. To our delight, it revived. We immediately had it killed and stuffed for the benefit of posterity. You can see it in the museum with the rest of our apparatus.

Nowhere in Rama had there been any trace of artistic expression; everything was purely functional. Perhaps the Ramans felt that they already knew the ultimate secrets of the universe, and were no longer haunted by the yearnings and aspirations that drove mankind.

Üretim büyük ölçüde otomatikleÅŸmiÅŸti. Robotlar?n iÅŸlettiÄŸi fabrikalar ard? arkas? kesilmeyen tüketim mallar? üretiyordu; böylece yaÅŸam için gereken her ÅŸey neredeyse bedava olmuÅŸtu. Ä°nsanlar art?k istedikleri lükslere sahip olabilmek için çal???yordu. Ya da hiç çal??m?yordu.

magnetohydrodynamic

The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be. Accidents, crimes, natural and man-made disasters, threats of conflict, gloomy editorials—these still seemed to be the main concern of the millions of words being sprayed into the ether. Yet Floyd also wondered if this was altogether a bad thing; the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull. From

Arthur C. Clarke

The gear that they were carrying looked very formidable, but though it was bulky it weighed practically nothing. It was all packed in gravity-polarising containers which neutralised its weight, leaving only inertia to be contended with.

It was a nuisance having to learn Morse—in this age, it seemed such an anachronism, and many were the bitter protests among pilots and space-engineers at the waste of effort. In your whole lifetime, you might need it only once. But that was the point. You would really need it then.

The Man Who Ploughed the Sea First published in Satellite, June 1957 Collected in Tales from the White Hart This story was written in Miami, in 1954. Despite the lapse of time, many of the themes of this story are surprisingly up-to-date, and a few years ago I was amazed to read a description in a scientific journal of a ship-borne device to extract uranium from sea water! I sent a copy of the story to the inventors, and apologised for invalidating their patent.

Men's minds were too valuable to waste on tasks that a few thousand transistors, some photo-electric cells, and a cubic meter of printed circuits could perform. There were factories that ran for weeks without being visited by a single human being. Men were needed for trouble-shooting, for making decisions, for planning new enterprises. The robots did the rest.

The Ghost in the Machine.

the goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.

One of the benefits of Dr. Kreuger's eminence was an unlimited computer budget:

parecía ahora desoladoramente primitiva ante los poderes que le estaban llevando a un inimaginable sino.

But many generations had passed since anyone had had a use for a set of seven-figure logarithms, an atlas of the world, and the score of Sibelius's Seventh Symphony printed, according to the flyleaf, by H. K. Chu & Sons at the City of Pekin in the year AD 2021.

seem quaint and archaic.

But to me, MAP was a robot Columbus.

Ja see, mõtles Alvin, mida ta nüüd nägi, ei olnud lihtsalt mälestus. See oli midagi keerukamat - see oli mäluseadme mälestus.

That conflict: Technology as it develops is a prayer… but prayer is by definition a subversion of reason. There is no Loophole there.

Like his great influence H.G. Wells, Clarke was a futurist and an ad astra guy, an inventor of Telstar twenty years before the engineers had the material to enact his plan.

Clarke's Law—"any increasingly complex technology will look like magic"—signified the undertow which in the Age of Limbaugh

A third attempt, later in the day, provoked a terrific crash, and a subsequent message from the Central Exchange that Professor Challenger's receiver had been shattered. After that we abandoned all attempt at communication.

Seclusion I can understand; but why print? Printing is a clumsy process. Why not write? What would it suggest, Watson?