That one American farmer can now feed himself and fifty-six other people may be, within the narrow view of the specialist, a triumph of technology; by no stretch of reason can it be considered a...

We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

You can’t argue with facts. You’re not entitled to your own facts.

Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding that would de-ideologize ‘ideologies,’ desanctify sanctities, but also mentalize the...

He had a notebook. He took notes in it. It was always useful. And them Sybil, gods bless her, had brought him this fifteen-function imp which did so many other things, although as far as...

The World’s Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and obedient. They thought of it as a giant slave, an untiring steel Negro, controlled by Reason in a world...

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

[Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages, behaviour, and desires.

The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and even necessary, that we should go on and on from...

It wasn’t science and technology that cause a slow progress, but collective knowledge of the society and market demands.

Here we introduce the nation’s first great communications monopolist, whose reign provides history’s first lesson in the power and peril of concentrated control over the flow of information. Western Union’s man was one Rutherford B....

Amazin’.’ he said again. ‘He just looks as though he’s thinking, right?”Er…yes.”But he’s not actually thinking?”Er…no.”So…he just gives the impression of thinking but really it’s just a show?”Er…yes.’Just like everyone else, then really,’ said Ridcully

I have sought to offer humanists a detailed analysis of a technology sufficiently magnificent and spiritual to convince them that the machines by which they are surrounded are cultural artifacts worthy of their attention and...

There’s some technology follow- through, … Some feel that the Fed is chasing a genie that’s not yet out of the bottle.

The world is fast changing and until you learn to adapt and adjust to stand out from the masses, you will fade into oblivion

[N]ew technology enables new kinds of group-forming.

To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, instant electronic communication and such, have taught me to...

The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature’s sci-fi.

At one point, so many people had assembled on the bridge that linked the ship to the shore that the timbers began to creak and groan. Suddenly, there was a tremendous crack and a hundred...

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Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.

I am not.” Jaccob took his hand out of his coat pocket, where he’d been reaching to check his police scanner or music player (he hadn’t decided which to use first).

Our administration has already moved to liberalize export controls on encryption, allowing more companies to export the technology to more end users. And we’ve done so while maintaining a framework necessary to protect our national...

Inventions have long-since reached their limit–and I see no hope for further developments.” — Julius Frontinus, world-famous engineer (Rome, 10 AD)

I might love my e-reader, but I’d never pass up the chance to browse real books.

Imagination is not, as some poets have thought, simply synonymous with good. It may be either good or evil. As long as art remained primarily mimetic, the evil which imagination could do was limited by...

History’s greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses.

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the...

If it hurts, do it more frequently, and bring the pain forward.

You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

When you stand inside somebody’s library, you get a powerful sense of who they are, and not just who they are now but who they’ve been. . . . It’s a wonderful thing to have...

There was a point when real estate agents were concerned that technology would leave them out,

People addicted with technology.Technology has indulged mankind. Beware of technology dependency!

Logic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man.

We may well find that if we are to fulfill God’s mandate on earth, we will need to communicate less often so we can communicate more. We will need to forsake the ease and the...

We don?t deal with technology that?s currently available, unless it?s one that we developed.

The nice thing about twitter is the architecture of visibility. Email is invisible unless you reach out to someone directly. With Twitter, anyone can follow you and this is one of the big changes that...

Arguably the greatest technological triumph of the century has been the public-health system, which is sophisticated preventive and investigative medicine organized around mostly low- and medium-tech equipment; … fully half of us are alive today...

[It just goes to show that technology investors aren’t sure which way to turn. Or to quote] All Along the Watchtower … There’s too much confusion. I can’t get no relief.

New Rule: Apple’s next device must be a computer that you control with your tongue. Thanks for eliminating the keyboard and the mouse, but pointing and pushing at things already seems too complicated and tiring....

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

What will we be doing, when everything that can be done, can be done better by robots?

Everyone knows that the Internet is changing our lives, mostly because someone in the media has uttered that exact phrase every single day since 1993. However, it certainly appears that the main thing the Internet...

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The sensitive person’s hostility to the machine is in one sense unrealistic, because of the obvious fact that the machine has come to stay. But as an attitude of mind there is a great deal...

People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.

I don’t think anybody knows exactly what the end result of open sourcing the chip technology is.

We had a 19th century valve, and I guess we needed 21st century technology to get it out of there.

Human perfection and technical perfection are incompatible. If we strive for one, we must sacrifice the other: there is, in any case, a parting of the ways. Whoever realises this will do cleaner work one...