Quotes About Technology

A sociedade modernizada até o estágio do espetacular integrado se caracteriza pela combinação de cinco aspectos principais: a incessante renovação tecnológica, a fusão econômico-estatal, o segredo generalizado, a mentira sem contestação e o presente perpétuo.

Fascism is technologically equipped primitivism.

From the outside looking in, trying to decipher Google's search algorithms is like reading tea leaves in a toilet bowl…as it's flushing. With the lights off.

picked a short, generic, evergreen hashtag: #MotoX.

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Antes de la segunda guerra mundial la vida era sencilla. Después ya teníamos sistemas.» Grace Hopper

Sometimes I feel entirely disassociated from what I do. It's a malady of the modern age.

Sometimes I feel entirely disassociated form what I do. It's a malady of the modern age.

When we consider the fact that the spectroscope has enabled us to make a chemical analysis of the sun, that the telephone has enabled us to hear 2,000 miles and that the x-rays have enabled us to see through flesh and bone, we must admit without reservation, that our power of perception, at some future day, may be infinite. And if we admit this we must admit the essential possibility of the superman.

Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others.

Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable.

But the Internet has spoiled everything—my family is able to get hold of me whenever they like. They might as well live nearby.

a curious gizmo that a bearded Scotsman named Alexander Graham Bell was calling his "telephone." (Bell would read from Hamlet's soliloquy at one end of the hall, and attendees at the other could plainly hear the inventor's voice issuing from a little speaker. "My God, it talks!" exclaimed one prominent visitor, Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil.)

Narcissism is our religion. The selfie stick is our cross, and we must carry it everywhere.

The frightening coincidence of the modern population explosion with the discovery of technical devices that, through automation, will make large sections of the population 'superfluous' even in terms of labor, and that, through nuclear energy, make it possible to deal with this twofold threat by the use of instruments beside which Hitler's gassing installations look like an evil child's fumbling toys, should be enough to make us tremble.

The question is only whether we wish to use our new scientific and technical knowledge in this direction, and this question cannot be decided by scientific means; it is a political question of the first order and therefore can hardly be left to the decision of professional scientists or professional politicians.

an increase in the workers' productivity, but exclusively the development of technology, and this depended neither on the working class nor on the bourgeoisie, but on the scientists.

Since violence—as distinct from power, force, or strength—always needs implements (as Engels pointed out long ago),2 the revolution of technology, a revolution in toolmaking, was especially marked in warfare.

who actually believe that men in think tanks are thinkers and that computers can think;

War in the era of machines could not possibly breed virtues like chivalry, courage, honor or manliness ... It imposed upon men nothing but the experience of bare destruction together with the humiliation of being only small cogs in the majestic wheel of slaughter.

What ticks in the clock, beats here with strong strokes of the hammer. It is Bloodless, who drank life from human thought and thereby got limbs of metals, stone and wood; it is Bloodless, who by human thought gained strength, which man himself does not physically possess. Bloodless reigns in Motala, and through the large foundries and factories he extends his hard limbs, whose joints and parts consist of wheel within wheel, chains, bars, and thick iron wires.

Without the continued existence of the democratic system and of publicly funded education and research, however, most current teachers and intellectuals would be unemployed or their income would fall to a small fraction of its present level. Instead of researching the syntax of Ebonics, the love life of mosquitoes, or the relationship between poverty and crime for $100 grand a year, they would research the science of potato growing or the technology of gas pump operation for $20 grand.

whenever I see a table of college "friends" sitting together they are inevitably texting with unseen others, searching, always searching, I guess, for something that might be better, a perpetual life hunt for digital greener grass, an attempt to smell roses that are elsewhere at the expense of the ones in front of you...

Check out the comments underneath," Augie says. I move the cursor down. "There are over fifty thousand of them." "Just click 'Top Comments' and read a few." I do as he asks. And as always when reading a comments section, my faith in humanity plummets: