Technological Quotes - Page 15

• "Thank You for Being Late" pinpoints 2007 as the year what he calls the, quote, great acceleration began, ushering in a dizzying and disorienting era of change - technological, economic, environmental. Dealing with that change, the challenge of our time, says Tom Friedman. He's here to explain it right now.

  Mary Matalin

  Years, Challenges, Environmental

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Here's what I do believe very strongly: that once capitalism comes into existence, once it creates this mythology of a stingy nature, then that myth has to be exorcised. In other words, we have to get out of people's heads the idea that without a market economy, without egotism, competition, rivalry and self-interest, without all the technological advances that [Karl] Marx imputed to capitalism, we have to eliminate the feeling that we would sink into some kind of barbarism.

  Murray Bookchin

  Believe, Ideas, Self

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• Maybe one thing that has happened is that the claims of non-partisanship of the mainstream media have been a little bit exploded. Mostly I'd say what, if anything has caused the change, are just the obvious technological changes - proliferation of easier access to getting your opinions out and the proliferation of media.

  William Kristol

  Media, Technological Change, What If

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• If you look at say, England and Germany a century ago, which had the most advanced navies then, they were dealing with extremely tricky technological problems. Putting a huge gun on a moving platform and ensuring that it could hit another moving target was one of the hardest technical problems of the early twentieth century.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moving, Gun, Navy

  Source: www.madre.org

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• Resistance is always possible! But we must engage in resistance first of all by developing the idea of a technological culture.

  Paul Virilio

  Ideas, Culture, Resistance

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update. If you're going to read a quick mystery novel to keep you amused while you're traveling, it's fine.

  Art Spiegelman

  Book, Mystery Novels, Updates

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire has been ethically ambiguous. If you want to reason about faith, and offer a reasoned (and reason responsive) defense of faith as an extra category of belief worthy of special consideration, I'm eager to play. I certainly grant the existence of the phenomenon of faith; what I want to see is a reasoned ground for taking faith seriously as a way of getting to the truth , and not, say, just as a way people comfort themselves and each other

  Daniel Dennett

  Play, Fire, People

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• A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Views, Understanding, Matter

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness.

  Doris Janzen Longacre

  Disease, Victim, Meaninglessness

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• Into the cultural and technological system of the modern world, the patriotic spirit fits like dust in the eyes and sand in the bearings. Its net contribution to the outcome is obscuration, distrust, and retardation at every point where it touches the fortunes of modern mankind.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Patriotic, Eye, Dust

  Thorstein Veblen (2006). “An Inquiry Into the Nature of Peace, and the Terms of Its Perpetuation”, p.40, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum, we can't see the very small, we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the microsphere. The telescope allows us to extend our vision into the macrosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope extends our optic nerve into space, and it allows us to mainline space and time through our optic nerve.

  Jason Silva

  Mean, Space, Vision

  "Are We All Cyborgs? Talk With Futurist and Filmmaker Jason Silva About RoboCop". Interview With Alejandro Rojas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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• All technological breakthroughs start with a small "elite". Think about cellphones, for example. Now just about everyone has one. The same will happen to innovations such as Twitter.

  Helen Zille

  Thinking, Innovation, Example

  Source: memeburn.com

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• I can tell for sure, the technologists have made it clear that they don't care about musicians. The arts have been sacrificed on the altar of technological advancement.

  T Bone Burnett

  Art, Musician, Advancement

  Source: collider.com

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• The National is the most advanced package of technological wonders yet assembled under one roof.

  Jack Kroll

  Wonder, Roof, Packages

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• The Turks who live here in Germany don't get their information from German media. They read Turkish newspapers and watch Turkish television. A sort of parallel media world has developed in Germany, especially as a result of technological advances like satellite TV and the internet.

  Fatih Ak?n

  Media, Germany, Watches

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Technological innovation is the successful implementation (in commerce or management) of a technical idea new to the institution creating it.

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Successful, Ideas, Creating

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• To make a proper moral appraisal of the prevalence of severe poverty today, we should focus not on comparisons with times past, when the global average income was much lower, but on a comparison with what would be possible in our time, given the current global average income and level of technological and administrative development.

  Thomas Pogge

  Past, Average, Focus

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Europe is not one of the major powers. And Africa even less so of course. But Africa has what Europe lacks: space, human resources, and natural resources while Europe has the technological innovation that Africa lacks. Together we can become a power which can count in the future.

  Abdoulaye Wade

  Europe, Together We Can, Space

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I would argue that among musicians who work in technology today, the level of technological sophistication probably exceeds that of military programs, to be blunt. They are just really smart people attracted to making strange new sounds.

  Jaron Lanier

  Military, Smart, Technology

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The geometry reveals five development direction for applications (each with endless possibilities); dividing, dwelling, trestle, fenestration and artistic installation. I find these enabled designs so reflective of an ever-changing world where contextual factors and technological resources are shifting definitions of architecture, design, and the traditional boundaries between disciplines.

  Dror Benshetrit

  Dwelling, Discipline, Design

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the contrary.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Leader, Visionaries, Occupation

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• Our economic strength at home is key to our diplomatic and military strength abroad. We should be investing far more in education as well as our technological and economic development so that we have the resources to support our foreign policy.

  Ruben Gallego

  Military, Home, Keys

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• There is nothing so big nor so crazy that one out of a million technological societies may not feel itself driven to do, provided it is physically possible.

  Freeman Dyson

  Crazy, May, Driven

  Freeman J. Dyson (1996). “Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson with Commentary”, p.559, American Mathematical Soc.

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• The plane as an object has been a huge effort to make. It is a sculpture, a technological invention, a piece of aviation culture. But really, it only exists to be inserted into a variety of landscapes, to be a catalyst, to offset them.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Effort, Culture, Sculpture

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• After generations of living under medical tutelage, which provides us with protection (albeit illusory) against "dangerous drugs", we have failed to cultivate the self-reliance and self-discipline we must possess as competent adults surrounded by the fruits of our pharmacological-technological age.

  Thomas Szasz

  Self, Discipline, Drug

  Thomas Szasz (1996). “Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market”, p.24, Syracuse University Press

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