Quotes About Technology

La velocidad tiene sus cosas buenas y también sus desventajas. Por un lado, la inmediatez de poder ser localizado desde la otra punta del mundo nos conecta a este, pero a la vez también nos genera un plus de ansiedad. Ya no tenemos la serenidad ni la paz de que disponíamos antes. Confundimos el hecho de tener amigos en redes sociales como el Facebook, donde te agregan con un solo clic, con la profundidad de las relaciones que exigen tiempo y experiencias compartidas.

Anti-Semitism was thus one of the keys of a 'reactionary modernism' based on a synthesis of modern rationality and technology with the conservative values of the anti-Enlightenment

A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums.

Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afarDrag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;Or on wide-waving wings expanded bearThe flying-chariot through the fields of air.

This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the Internet without its being touched by a gay program. That's kind of funny.

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.

Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant ' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.

I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.

This is a generation best summed up by the kid that will stand in front of a microwave oven shouting, "Come on, I ain't got all minute!

The evolutionary economist Richard Nelson of Columbia University has pointed out that there are in fact two types of technology that play a major role in economic growth. The first is Physical Technology; this is what we are accustomed to thinking of as technology, things such as bronze-making techniques, steam engines, and microchips. Social Technologies, on the other hand, are ways for organizing people to do things.

The heart of software is its ability to solve domain-related problems for its user.

In general, don't fight your frameworks. Seek ways to keep the fundamentals of domain-driven design and let go of the specifics when the framework is antagonistic.

The astrolabe was a mechanical implementation of an object-oriented model of the sky.

You can't send functions:

Yes, workers can access localStorage and make XMLHttpRequests.

You've probably seen latitude and longitude specfied in both degrees/minutes/seconds, such as (47°38'34'', 122°32'32''), and in decimal values, such as (47.64, -122.54). With the Geolocation API we always use decimal values. If

Here's the short story: functions are objects in JavaScript. In

in JavaScript just about everything is an object underneath, even

As it turns out, one of the things the new operator does behind the scenes when the object is created is to store information that allows it to determine, at any time, the constructor that created the object. And

Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know.

Ours was an extraordinary generation, born into a devastated world, exhausted from six years of total war. Sixty million died. Nowadays the young think times are tough if they can't get an Internet connection. They're right; times are tough, but there was a time before it all began to go to shit, when it all really was shit. Our generation was born into that time. It was called World War II.