Quotes About Technology

Since our first, furry ancestor scraped flint on stone and banished night with fire, we have climbed heavenward on a ladder made of our own arrogance. But

Some day they'd invent call discarding. Like call forwarding, only it would hang up preemptively on telemarketers.

A child of the new age of iron, steam, and mechanical wonders, the architect, Isaiah Rogers, virtually invented the modern hotel: a functionally complex and self-contained structure (and social organization) that was a sort of human terrarium. A closed world designed from the ground up for the specific purpose of welcoming, housing, maintaining, and feeding guests in advanced comfort, the hotel was no longer just a stop along the way: it was a destination in itself

I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers.

Technology isn't the enemy, it is our ally, but only if we adopt a new model that puts people before profit. I realize that we seem far from that model, but I have seen it in action and it is a beautiful thing. So I'm not willing to give up yet. Hope is the last thing to die.

But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.

Any powerful technology can be abused.

My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.

Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.

To be sure, physicists have faith in string theory because, in some important sense, at least, it seems to work - just as people fly in airplanes because they work. The difference is, somebody understands how jets work. And no one, as yet, understands what underlies string theory.

How long before we devise a means of telling horoscopes with gas lamps?

Funny thing about those Middle Ages," said Joseph. "They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they're in Modern Times, you know, they get all this neat technology and pass all these humanitarian laws, and then something happens: there's an economic crisis, or science makes some discovery people can't deal with. And boom, people go right back to burning Jews and selling pieces of the true Cross.

Modern Prometheans have raided Mount Olympus again and have brought back for man the very thunderbolts of Zeus.

Lawrence's relentless drive for ever larger and more powerful cyclotrons epitomized the trend toward the kind of "big science" associated with the rise of corporate America in the early twentieth century. Only four industrial laboratories existed in the country in 1890; forty years later there were nearly one thousand such facilities.

The guilt consciousness of the atomic bomb scientists is one of the most astounding things I have ever seen.

absurd." Quantum mechanics seems to study that which doesn't exist—but nevertheless proves true. It works. In the decades to come, quantum physics would open the door to a host of practical inventions that now define the digital age, including the modern personal computer, nuclear power, genetic engineering, and laser technology (from which we get such consumer products as the CD player and the bar-code reader commonly used in supermarkets).

The Chinese state is the majority shareholder in the Hangzhou firm Hikvision, which began life in a state research institute and is now the largest manufacturer of video surveillance systems in the world. Today, Hikvision cameras have been installed in more than 150 countries, where they identify faces and license plates, and send an automatic alert when a driver is seen texting at the wheel.

A gifted storyteller should be able to tell their stories in different genres, mediums, and platforms. The art of storytelling is the same since civilization began. Only the way of telling it has changed because of technology. - Kailin Gow on Storytelling

Science Technology Engineering and Math is still necessary to know if you dream of being a filmmaker. Filmmaking is an art form, but with the use of STEM. - Kailin Gow.

Technology never exists on its own, it's part of a wider collection of connections, ways of seeing things." FADE by Kailin Gow.

Every Fader has the key," Jack assures me, and puts his finger in the key hole. I realize then that it must be one of the fancy biometric locks the Faders love so much. "The key hole is just in case someone wanders in by accident. They just think it's an old storage room, or a mine, or something. They don't see the level of technology that's here.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Within the last decade, we humans have made huge advancements in technology. In the next ten years, it may not be inconceivable we will have humans traveling to the moon commercially and space colonies as space hotels. - Kailin Gow on STEM Stage Talk.

We have seven pillars of development. India has a cutting edge information technology industry. We are setting up a technology park. We would like to see technology penetration iin education. Besides, we would like to see cooperation in industries like fashion, filmmaking, ship-building, education, health and energy.

Why would our brains have this capacity to sense the oneness of the universe, a sense that can be induced in many ways, even technological, if that capacity did not reflect an external reality?