Quotes About Technology

As commentators like the American psychologist Gary Marcus have noted, it's extremely difficult to teach a computer to recognise cats. And that's not for want of trying.

The government is right to recognise the importance of science and technology, but I think it is a mistake to ringfence funds.

You can always recognise my restless peers and me; we are the people whose feet you hear tramping along the pavement at the other end of the phone line because we can only make calls while moving.

I am one of those from the green movement who recognises the low carbon benefits of nuclear generation.

The fact that Facebook presents facial recognition programmes as a desirable development, well, that in itself is a decisive step toward fascism, as far as I'm concerned.

In the smart home of the future, there should be a robot designed to talk to you. With enough display technology, connectivity, and voice recognition, this human-interface robot or head-of-household robot will serve as a portal to the digital domain. It becomes your interface to your robot-enabled home.

The speech recognition is now good enough that I dictate emails on my phone rather than type them in. It's not perfect, but it's good enough that it changes how I interact with my phone.

I think at the end of the day with any technology, whether you're talking about facial recognition technology or anything else, the people that use the technology have to be responsible for it, and if they use it irresponsibly, they have to be held accountable.

There were so many things of value in the original Mac that it is still recognizable.

In the case of music, Apple got out early. They were the first to really recognize that you couldn't just think about the device and all the pieces separately. Bravo.

There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images.

IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.

In Seoul, there are plans to create a blockchain ecosystem to make it a city that will be recognized as the center of blockchain in the world.

What I think is happening in China is that they are recognizing mobile infrastructure is actually a critical piece of national infrastructure.

On August 30, 1982, I get issued a copyright officially recognizing me as the inventor of e-mail.

I know everyone has a different taste as far as personal technology - like, smartphones are maybe the most personal decision you can make - so I don't know if I can recommend one thing for everyone. But, I do like the idea of everyone moving, eventually, to an electric car.

Andy Clark has several books you can find on Amazon, including 'Natural Born Cyborgs' and 'Being There.' I particularly recommend 'Being There' to anybody who still thinks the Cartesian separation of mind and body should be taken seriously.

To understand the limits and opportunities of algorithms in the context of artistic creation, we need to understand that the latter usually consists of three elements: discovery, production, and recommendation.

A record isn't like a movie - you can get it together pretty fast.

I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more.

We believe that the Internet is the live concert promoters best friend although it might have crippled the record label business.

Because of technology, there's no longer the social shaming that goes on if you're a black kid walking into a record store to buy Nirvana.

There's one song that I recorded called 'Saviour' and every single sound from that song was actually recorded in a shipyard on my iPhone.