They are highly technologically oriented and expect that new technology will be available.

…people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Modern scientific accomplishments” –a wealth of methods coupled with a poverty of intentions which, having nearly exhausted the hell-potential of the earth, move on now to the first frontier of the heavens.

transhuman,” as some writers and scholars have recently suggested. It’s what makes us human. Technology is in our nature. Through our tools we give our dreams form. We bring them into the world. The practicality...

When the time travel is eventually doable technologically,yesterday was dead a man who is going to be born tomorrow.

You’ve got an industry that has set itself up successfully. Then, all of a sudden, the technology has come along and scrambled the pipeline. They feel very uncomfortable in this shifting environment.

Do you realize it’s been only a century that we’ve been able to go from house to car to office to car to wherever, with the heater on, and the defroster on, protected from the...

When Thoreau considered “where I live and what I live for,” he tied together location and values. Where we live doesn’t just change how we live; it informs who we become. Most recently, technology promises...

Away and away the aeroplane shot, till it was nothing but a bright spark; an aspiration; a concentration; a symbol (so it seemed to Mr. Bentley, vigorously rolling his strip of turf at Greenwich) of...

What’s the point in being here if you have to follow a computer? What is this, a fucking Turing test in reverse?

Nature is the ultimate technology; a technology we are still too immature, arrogant, possessive and careless to care for responsibly.

Information age. I guess I’m part of it, even if I can’t remember how to use my iPhone from week to week, and have to learn how to send e-mails all over again every couple...

The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh.

It’s like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

Regarding exports of North Korean missile technology, export of technology is trade and if there are buyers, we’ll sell.

Apparently, the glasses didn’t need to be connected to the internet for the wearer to poke into someone’s personal life. Even though a search engine could lead to an individual’s address, the browser couldn’t actually...

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive...

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

To some people, there is no noise on earth as exciting as the sound of three or four big fan-jet engines rising in pitch, as the plane they are sitting in swivels at the end...

Similarly, Haynes (1998, viii) notes that many professional translators, and their organizations, remain remarkably uninformed with regards to the progress made in translation technology. He goes on to observe that many are so largely unenthusiastic...

Unfortunately robots capable of manufacturing robots do not exist. That would be the philosopher’s stone, the squaring of the circle.

When multi-national corporations are given the same powers as feudal states or nations: expect wars.

This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can’t escape. Life was easier then. You just didn’t pick up the phone.

ADVERSE REVERSEAdvanced technology has regressed us into warmongering apes with superior weaponsKamil Ali

When you agree to help one person, you ultimately have to disappoint someone else; it’s like a karmic law.

The unfortunate 8075 hadn’t survived his assault, splintering apart, fragments of its casing skittering across the bench. The battery within had split along its plane, revealing something as out-of-place as a missile in a bathtub.

She flipped through the pages of her apps, as if Apple made an app for “Escape from a deserted island.

Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health

Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine...

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don’t abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.”(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)

better” synonymous. From my family I became aware of the importance of passing along wisdom from one generation to the next. Yet despite the increasing proliferation of digital recording and other communication technologies, we’re passing...

That’s something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery.

It will take awhile to know if the mature technology that comes out of the working group will have a lot of support.

In crime books it’s possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian crime novels fingerprinting has to be explained because it’s new. Nowadays it’s part...

We realised after seeing Poseidon that CCTV technology is designed to revisit an incident that you have recorded, not to alert you to an incident,

Standing before costly objects of technological beauty, we may be tempted to reject the possibility of awe, for fear that we could grow stupid through admiration. We may feel at risk of becoming overimpressed by...

In this section you will learn how to use the tools the way that I think you will choose to use them by default.

I believe there no surer path to leaping dramatically forward in your career than to earn a Ph.D. in the humanities. Because the thought leaders in our industry are not the ones who plodded dully,...

She doesn’t recognize the number—none of her friends use their phones as phones anymore.

Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the...

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought...

I’ve never heard a writer feel that way about a device with a screen. Oh sure, they’re functional, practical. We would be lost without them. But just as we need to feel our feet on...

Technology innovation for the sake of innovation is an empty shell if we focus on what people don’t need but would buy anyways.

I fear that we live in an ahistorical age in which we believe that we are so wise that we no longer need the lessons of the past, perhaps most disturbingly of all that technology...

A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the round-the-clock coverage on television, but he had no way of connecting with those...

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

It looks like the technology stocks are recovering, so that’s helping the market tone.

In the half-century of his life, a tick on the Doomsday clock, he had borne witness to the most unbelievable technological advances. He had started off listening to an old Bush radio in the corner...

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.