Any ceremony performed in the absence of reasonable knowledge as to cause and effect is magic.

Civic participants don’t aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate…

I was aware that I was taking inordinate pleasure in small, technological events and objects, and that this was probably a semiconscious tactic meant to evade confronting certain agonizing life events which were probably not...

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won’t create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the...

This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. – Murray (WN 285)

Nothing happens to a business growth until someone sells its product.

Turing presented his new offering in the form of a thought experiment, based on a popular Victorian parlor game. A man and a woman hide, and a judge is asked to determine which is which...

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation…tooting,...

The staff is not leaning toward a rail technology recommendation at this point. That may be a surprise to some people.

I was impressed by the scene in Apollo 13 where the astronauts request confirmation of their calculations and several people at Mission Control dive for their slide rules. For several months after that, my standard...

Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but...

But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960’s.

It seems like Juniper is settling from a technology innovator that used to grow at a rate faster than the market with the ability to gain market share to a more steady state.

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

We have obtained the technology for producing nuclear fuel … no one can take it away from our nation.

What’s wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies

When you decide to meet—in person—someone that you met online, would you then be taking your relationship to the ‘previous’ level?

We now have the technology to fish down below 2km, something that has been brought in on a large scale in the North Atlantic in the past 15 years.

Technology brings mankind closer to divinity or extinction.

National is the leader in ceramic speaker driver technology for portable devices. The LM4962 and LM4953 integrated drivers allow manufacturers to create credit-card-thin handsets or add additional features to designs because the chips save space...

We continuously enhance our knowledge base be it latest in technology, market scenario or customer requirements.

Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.

Society is… it’s slipping away.

Forget UNIX – it will be gone in 5 years.

I’m not sure he’s wrong about automobiles,” he said. “With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization — that is, in spiritual civilization. It may be that they will not...

She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web of rails that went off into black holes where green and red lights hung as...

I think we’re in a full-blown mania, especially in the technology sector.

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.

A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums.

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them: it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in. Even idleness...

Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery’s being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission led to nuclear energy. But before the 1880’s, science played almost...

The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.

To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.

AMD has made some gains in mobile technology, but has been only marginally successful. There is a higher level of integration with notebooks than with desktop PCs, which gives Intel an edge since they are...

[VOIP] is a disruptive technology, … But is it threatening the Bells? No. It’s challenging the old models, not threatening the companies.

A critical attitude, like activity, is one of the fundamental characteristics of our time. Both are interdependent. If the critical attitude should dwindle, there would be more peace and less intelligence, to the benefit of...

At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.

The externalization of memory [via the use of external symbolic storage systems] has altered the actual memory architecture within which humans think, which is changing the role of biological memory, the way in which the...

The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change, so do the former.

He never realized how noisy American silence was until all the gadgets died.

Yes’ Simon nodded. ‘This would suggest that these patterns grow inside the batteries until a critical point is reached, when the shapes develop no further, and the phone ceases to function.

We just have to be smart to understand what our consumers want, what the technology can offer, … In that sense, we’re ready for the Internet to be a disruptive technology and completely disrupt our...

There is no doubt that ‘force multipliers’ – squad automatic weapons – have changed the character of warfare once again, just as their predecessors did during the First World War, if perhaps not to quite...

We have new platforms, new process technology and new products. It’s a very powerful one-two-three.

The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of the self as it entered the age of science and technology. Dazzled by...

Without the dreamers who write science fiction and other imaginary material we’d still be sitting in caves … if we weren’t already extinct.

every successful hardware has a software behind

Technology is a goddamn bully.

New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information.