Quotes About Technology

Indeed, Wiener was the first information-age forebear to consider information, not as a tangible good to be bought and sold, but as "content"—whether that content was an ephemeral commodity like the news, a body of scientific knowledge, or the living substance of everyday experience human beings extracted from the world around them. To

Of all of these anti-homeostatic factors in society, the control of the means of communication is the most effective and most important.

He's] a rat. A first-class double-A-battery-run rat.

For myself I would desire a combination of old romance and modern machinery.

I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.

El petróleo, hermanos míos, es el nervio vital de la civilización

En el siglo XX, el amor es un teléfono que no suena.

În secolul XX, dragostea e un telefon care nu sun?.

A? vrea s? tr?iesc în lumea virtual?, dar am s? mor în cea real?.

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to buy them a drink.

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

A good description of photography necessitates that one treat it as an essence unto itself; not as an event either of the World or of philosophy, or as a syncretic sub-product of modern science and technology; that one recognize the existence, not just of a photographic art, but of an authentic photographic thought; the existence, beyond the components of technology and image production, of a certain specific relation to the real, one which knows itself as such.

Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

We are so reliant on power and technology for everything.

100 million iphones don't lie. What an amazing man. He is the apple of all of our i's. We have an i everything and its all so amazing.

Some people seem to be so afraid of being alone with themselves and their thoughts that they have to be talking to someone on the phone constantly. And talking really, really loudly. It's as though they're trying to shout the quiet out of their lives. 'HELLO? YEAH! I'M ALL RIGHT, HOW ARE YOU?' And as soon as one call ends, they're desperately trying to call someone else before the silence settles back. 'HELLO?' It's madness.

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.

We can't go on much longer morally. We can't go on much longer scientifically. The technology that was supposed to save us is ready to destroy us. New weapons are being made all the time, including chemical and biological weapons. Today the only bright spot on the horizon of this world is the promise of the coming again of Christ.

The [twentieth century] could well go down in history not so much as a century of progress but as "the century of superficiality.

Parents have bought into the world's pastimes chock-full of pop culture, and it is searing the souls of our children. Parents have allowed electronic babysitters to infiltrate their homes and minds; young people's sense of right and wrong is being choked by wild and rank weeds in a moral wasteland.

A professor at the University of Michigan said to me: "As soon as we create life in a test tube, we won't need God anymore." I answered: "This happened once before when man ruled God out and proposed the Tower of Babel. It ended in frustration, confusion, and judgment.

Science is learning to control everything but man.

Today we have more knowledge than at any other time in history. In seconds our laptops or PCs can call up information about a topic that would have taken years to collect. Young people graduate with more knowledge than ever before—but in spite of their knowledge, they are confused, bewildered, frustrated, and without moral moorings.