Quotes About Progress

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

To me, this is not an information age. It's an age of networked intelligence, it's an age of vast promise.

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.

In projecting the future, I think Apple did a good job of figuring out when the technology was ready to be consumer-grade.

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba.

Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.

All music is based in one way or the other, or influenced through the ages, on technology.

The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million?

The most human thing about us is our technology.

The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously.

In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.

Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.

Technology is technology. Technology doesn't have a, it is not good or bad. Technologies are tools.

People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It's the acceleration.

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.

This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

What intrigued me most was not the technology as such but the questions about the human goods, the fundamental human values and virtues that are raised by debates over biotechnology.

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

Transhumanism literally means "beyond human." It's using science and technology to radically change and improve the human species and experience.