Quotes About Progress

Some people think technology has the answers.

We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

First they use technology to poison the planet, then they develop it further to escape from the planet they have poisoned.

Whereas science elicits changes in order to know, technology knows in order to elicit changes.

What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.

Using references of current technology, Martin Luther King Jr. could mentally cut and paste better than any individual I have ever known.

We were badly held back not just by the technology, but by the culture of journalism.

We live in an age where technology is so powerful that we can make change without even leaving our computers or cell phones.

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.

I think technology is having a democratising effect on film.

Just in the past couple years, we've seen digital tools display skills and abilities that ... eat deeply into what we human beings do for a living.

Transhumanist technology will do much for the world that the world can't really imagine yet, including overcome some of the climate issues the world is facing.

It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.

Most emerging markets are skipping web based technology and go straight to mobile

We're all moving to a world where the forces of nature come closer together to technology.

Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology.

we should be careful not to let machinery swamp life. That we should be sure, when we are confronted with a fresh mechanical contrivance, that we are not losing more than we gain by adopting it.

The technology is good and it's bad. You know what you're dealing with out there musically, but my head stops at this electronic stuff. I don't quite know what I'm dealing with out there yet.

We want to make every single interaction in the world into a ready-to-use brick.