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.

It doesn’t stop being magic just because you know how it works.

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the...

I watch worry and anxiety being pandered to through technology which is neutral.

Technology is anything invented after you were born.

It is no longer just engineers who dominate our technology leadership, because it is no longer the case that computers are so mysterious that only engineers can understand what they are capable of. There is...

Laptab: A touchscreen notebook, laptop, computer.

Whatever happens, we have gotThe Maxim gun, and they have not.

It’s a relatively slow-growing market. I wouldn’t say it’s doing great in Europe because the technology is in the early stage of adoption. It’s reaching critical mass, but nobody has hit the home run and...

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. Nobody knows who invented hay, the idea...

The problem, really, is that while humanity continues to experience huge leaps in technology, we experience no equivalent leaps in our ethical capacity. In the never-ending arms race between technology and ethics, technology always wins....

As more and more work is done by machines, people can spend more time on other activities. Not just leisure and amusements, but also on the deeper satisfactions that come from invention and exploration, from...

Technology is completely useless unless you have a social network that it is supporting. We know that there’s going to be life in this product, and we know that there are going to be deals...

It’s one of the last vital signs that hasn’t been that hasn’t had technology take a real foothold in it, so were trying to change that.

Businesses are starting to ramp up spending on new equipment and technology and consumer spending looked relatively strong in January, despite predictions that they were tapped out. This may mean fewer job cuts in the...

Twittering just seemed to be people telling other people what they were doing–getting in the shower, making coffee. Who on earth wanted to know these things?…Babble and twitter. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?

The computer may be incompetent in itself–that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where...

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Anna, like most English speakers, thought GASP was a silly name for the project. But the name got the point across. If there were modern wonders of the world, GASP – and Kali – stood...

One of the last pillars of proprietary technology is about to fall,

Si inventer la substance, c’est indirectement inventer l’accident, plus l’invention est puissant, performante, et plus l’accident est dramatique.

Remember when only a few people had mobile phones. Generally regarded as an object of derision, you would occasionally see business types clutching those ridiculous grey bricks to their faces and mutter to yourself ‘what...

The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention.

We’re studying very hard where this technology is coming from and what we can do to combat that technology,

normal,” sane men and women are capable of evil, then the atrocities perpetrated during the Holocaust and other genocides could be repeated today and into the future.Yet, this is exactly the lesson we must learn...

The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a...

There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to...

Some of the greatest discoveries…consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why,post factum they appear so obvious.

Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone. ‘Smartphones’ completely ignore these basic facts, resulting in some of the least intelligent...

These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle

Technology is great…when it works.

Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it’s inevitable that it should come home to roost.

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

But the wireless,” asked Momulla. “What has the wireless to do with our remaining here?” “Oh yes,” replied Gust, scratching his head. He was wondering if the Maori were really so ignorant as to believe...

The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order...

The toys are there. Everyone has access to the same technology.

It doesn’t matter how long we’ve used something; all that matters is how awesome the thing replacing it is. MP3s and automobiles happen to be really, really awesome, whereas ebooks—at least so far—are fairly limited...

Those activities of an earlier day, furthermore, provided opportunities for cooperative action toward a common goal and for a sense of accomplishment that was not readily available to a modern technological society. For the ‘city-bred...

We limit how much technology our kids use at home.” (Nytimes article, Sept. 10, 2014)

To be able to experiment with new forms of distribution and technology comes naturally to the group and we’re excited about the reaction we’ll get.

But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology.

Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.

[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit...