I know there’s a proverb which that says ‘To err is human,’ but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

The abruptness and severity of the current technology slowdown has clearly impacted 3Com. 3Com is taking immediate steps to reduce costs and achieve profitability.

Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems, just as it is a tool for making money,...

modem” can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo.

It’ll turn me into a weapon,’ I say, my voice suddenly loud. ‘All you got to do is curl your hands into fists and you turn into a weapon,’ says Jim. ‘Your body is just...

We want to stay cutting-edge, we want to pull in the private sector who has the technology and the resources to assist us with … state-of-the-art equipment we will need to secure the border.

Don’t Stare Into Your i-Phone Too Long Lest The Abyss Stares Back at You

In the last few years we’ve seen an explosion in cell phone technology. You can now swipe your credit card through a vending machine and have a cell phone pop out of the slot.

Prognoses which have been made contend that our technology will terminate in pure necromancy. If so, everything we now experience would be only a departure and mechanics would become refined to a degree that would...

Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with actual people. It’s all one big endless loop. We like...

If you control the code, you control the world. This is the future that awaits us.

The information age is so psychotic – without the cell phone and Internet, I would be drama free right now.

The happiest people aren’t necessarily the most successful, or the most popular, or the most talented. They’re the ones who are interested in the people around them.

Odessa sighed. ‘When I said you were one of the smartest people in the company, I was referring solely to your technical abilities. Now get to work.

The tools that would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

Every technology will alienate you from some part of your life. That is its job. Your job is to notice. First notice the difference. And then, every time, choose.

This is a genie that I think you can’t put back in the bottle. The technology is available and the consumer, you know, is the one who is driving this.

Technology doesn’t change people’s basic needs or their natures.

What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

It is one clear case in which technology is creeping on us without us being aware. We did not imagine that images would play such a big role in this tournament.

Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.

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It’s still magic even if you know how it’s done.

RIM is definitely trying to push aggressively with their technology, but legal issues are holding them back from going full throttle and coming out with new devices and technologies.

We remain confident that Pakistan clearly understands [the U.S.] concerns regarding proliferation of nuclear technology.

In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it’s great to see that somebody’s still rocking the bus-on-a-string.

I am positive that in the vast majority of cases we are hammering nails with microscopes.

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.

I definitely have the source technology to produce tailored embryonic stem cells. I can replicate the process anytime.

The OPA man, Anderson Dawes, was sitting on a cloth folding chair outside Miller’s hole, reading a book. It was a real book – onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller...

Everywhere he went he saw this same phenomenon—parents unmindful of their children, their attention fixed on little glass windows in the palms of their hands, mesmerized like drug addicts, longing for some artificial connection while...

Thanks is part to our education system, we tend to think that we’re smarter than the stupid guys in funny wigs who came before us. But that’s because we are mistaking technology, progress, and access...

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way...

Our society has long treated men as machines, as bodies expendable in the name of progress or profit. Men have overruled their pain and soul’s delight, taught to think of themselves as “mechanisms”. Such an...

Through our scientific and technological genius we’ve made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we must make of it a brotherhood. We must all learn to live together...

Many companies have now had over two years of strong profitability. They haven’t yet completely reinvested that in technology, but as they gain economic strength, they will.

It’s not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it’s that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.

. .his cell phone didn’t work in Three Pines, and neither did email. He almost expected to see messages fluttering back and forth in the sky above the village, unable to descend.

Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that’s technically pretty challenging—to take this big network of machines that are unreliable and build a big, reliable storage system out of it.

In many homes, technology meant to illuminate the mind ends up only illuminating the living room.

On the TV he found cartoons and movies, music videos and game shows, repeat broadcasts and reruns, but there was nothing current, and no news. Many channels were just blank, or displayed brightly coloured test...

Our technology forces us to live mythically

They had a clear technology problem with laptops. They didn’t have — and IBM couldn’t seem to make — a good G5 mobile part, and that problem wasn’t going away.

I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to bring science into the universities in the Gulf states and he told me...

It was summer and moonlight and we had lemonade to drink, and we held the cold glasses in our hands, and Dad read the stereo-newspapers inserted into the special hat you put on your head...

Don’t explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.

The digital age believes in the rational ordering of human beings. We believe that information will eventually solve every conceivable problem.

To be honest, my life has exhibited many strange and sometimes troubling characteristics, but shortness is not one of them. It feels like an eternity since I started school and a techno-social epoch since I...

La ciencia encarna el deseo humano de entender la naturaleza; la tecnología conjuga ese deseo con la ambición de controlarla.

Technologies that change society are technologies that change interactions between people