Quotes About Technology

When Victoria was born, food was cooked in open fireplaces, horses carried messages, half of the population was illiterate, and a narrow band of property owners were the only ones with political power. By the end of her life in 1901, people traveled by subway, telegraphs shot messages across oceans, education was compulsory, and women had some basic rights.

We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must "log on" somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)

Why does the American cyberindustry have a thing for Indians?

I play a lot of games. I love indie games.

The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.

The work that Google is doing in China is indirectly benefiting the Chinese military. Indirect may not be a full characterization of the way it is. It's more of a direct benefit to the Chinese military.

I have sometimes thought the power of computers had exceeded our ability to use them, but Mr. Jobs and his team kept giving us devices that made indispensable things easier in ways you never thought of.

I'm not an early adopter of technology unless I consider it absolutely indispensable.

Social media has brought the whole world together, and that's good in some ways and bad in others, because a lot of the individuality that we all had, everybody shares it now.

We now see hacking taking place by foreign governments and by private individuals all around the world.

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.

So that's my main role right now and really the politics also includes going out and communicating to the world why Apache is a good thing, why companies should be involved in it, and why individuals should be involved in it too.

When we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn't want to think it was cute; we wanted people to take it seriously, so we gave it more of an industrial look. People personified their Roomba anyway. Over 80 percent of people name their robot. We did nothing to encourage people to do that, but they do it anyway.

Jobs are changing. Jobs will be about the blending of the digital and industrial capabilities.

It's connectivity that really makes the industrial Internet work: it's giving the right information at the right time to the right person or right machine to make the right decision.

Fracking is an industrial process, but it can be done safely. It's government's job to make sure it can be done safely.

I can imagine an automotive designer or an industrial designer building a product in 3D, all in real-time. That's the way a lot of people are going to work in the future.

Every industrial revolution brings along a learning revolution.

As a technologist, I see how AI and the fourth industrial revolution will impact every aspect of people's lives.

Coding is like writing, and we live in a time of the new industrial revolution. What's happened is that maybe everybody knows how to use computers, like they know how to read, but they don't know how to write.

The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.

Fourth industrial revolution is a deadly combination of technology and Internet of Things.

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization.