Quotes About Technology

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Ours is a brand new world of allatonceness. 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village … a simultaneous happening.

Mediumul este mesajul.

El hombre que almacena alimentos reaparece incongruentemente como el hombre que almacena información.

In the Greater Community, there are races at all levels of evolution and technological skill. There are races that are dedicated to good. And there are races that are dedicated to destruction. However, because they have to contend with each other, they moderate each other. To the extent that they do have contact, they learn from each other and influence each other, physically and mentally.

A rule for success in today's wild new economic world is this: use the most innovative technologies to deliver the most primal products and services.

I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can't have one without the other.

And in their corner all they had was Murderbot, who just wanted everyone to shut up and leave it alone so it could watch the entertainment feed all day.

Gurathin turned to me. So you don't have a governor module, but we could punish you by looking at you. I looked at him. Probably, right up until I remember I have guns built into my arms.

Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas. (Yes, that was sarcasm.)

So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.

Or Miki was a bot who had never been abused or lied to or treated with anything but indulgent kindness. It really thought its humans were its friends, because that's how they treated it. I signaled Miki I would be withdrawing for one minute. I needed to have an emotion in private.

My clothes are made of monosodium glutamate and hexachlorophene. My food is made of polyester, rayon and lurex. My rug lotions contain vitamins. Do my vitamins feature cleaning agents? I hope so. My brain is gimmicked by a microprocessor the size of a quark, and costing ten pee and running the whole deal. I am made of — junk, I'm just junk.

Einstein's Monsters, by the way, refers to nuclear weapons, but also to ourselves. We are Einstein's monsters, not fully human, not for now.

After many ponderous experiments the first crematorium was opened in December 1920 in Petrograd. It could manage barely 120 bodies a month, and, in February 1921, cremated itself when the wooden roof caught fire.

And I still surfed on Manhattan static.

Leibniz's machine was designed to automate the dreary task of solving moral problems

As long ago as the early 1980s, a UK government poster depicted a human being as a 2,048,000 kilobyte memory. (That's only two megabytes – about one song on an iPod – but at the time it sounded a lot!)

though in the year before the first use of X-rays this was not known; indeed, it did not become known for seventy years, when this same thigh was X-rayed after a fall in Monte Carlo in 1963.

Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the worst possible way when we regard it as something neutral; for this conception of it, to which today we particularly pay homage, makes us utterly blind to the essence of technology.

The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatuses of technology. The actual threat has already afflicted man in its essence. The rule of enframing threatens humanity with the possibility that it could be denied to him to enter into a more original revealing and hence to experience the call of a more primal truth.

Man stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened.

The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.

Everything is functioning. That is precisely what is terror-inducing, that everything functions, that the functioning propels everything more and more toward further functioning, and that technicity increasingly dislodges man and uproots him from the earth.