Quotes About Technology

Hate American toilets with only toilet paper and no bidets.

Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.

A token like ethereum has gone up 10 times faster than bitcoin, and it's fueling an ICO bubble no different then the dot-com IPOs of the late '90s.

As with early internet startups, some token models don't make sense. For every 1 huge hit, there will be 3 minor successes and 100 failures, so we shouldn't be surprised when some fail.

Tokyo - still - offers the most tightly integrated infrastructure, where smooth, technology-driven experiences take place when engaging in everyday actions, such as verifying personal identity, paying for goods, and buying tickets.

It's just exciting to be able to see what someone around the world is eating in Sicily or Tokyo.

In 1978, I entered the Tokyo Institute of Technology. I would have loved to study videogame programming, but nobody was teaching it then. So I went to classes on engineering and early computer science.

Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.

Globalisation is happening so fast it's confusing for people, and tolerance is threatened.

I don't tolerate anything that runs slowly. Whether it be a phone, tablet or computer, it has to run at optimum speed.

'Globalization' has become the great tag phrase, but when we talk about it, it's nearly always in terms of the global marketplace or communications technology - either data or goods that are whizzing around. We forget that people are whizzing around more and more. On them, it takes a toll.

New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete.

No major technological change has ever been instituted by mankind without an array of negative consequences. The motor car has meant liberation for millions, but it has also caused congestion, environmental damage, and a disturbing death toll on the roads.

But the media were about to go cold turkey on the whole latter half of the twentieth century, and the shock was going to make them irritable.

Prescient experts of biological codes.

I don't believe in e-mail. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.

How strange, that when you are away, I reach for my cell phone's buzz as if it were your hand. Each shiver in my pocket, a way to find you.

found graphene hiding out in the graphite from an ordinary pencil.

The hotel was a blazing citadel, a palace of electricity in the city's cold gloom.

She remembered the promise of an antiseptic future: domed cities and artificial weather. Somehow this was supposed to be good. Anna O. knew that hers was the last generation to believe the future would be better.

Addie zipped open her computer case, found a USB cord, and tossed it through the back window so it landed on the seat next to him. "What's this for?" Kris asked, holding the cord. Darn. He found it too soon. "Thank you," she said. "I must have dropped it." "You just threw it in.

Technology freed us up . . . to imprison us further. It's created the imperative to go faster, to take on more ideas, and to juggle more.

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.