Technological Quotes - Page 3

• I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a time out from technological progress as we know it.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Progress, Headings, Knows

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• Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

  C. L. R. James

  Discovery, Social, Social Change

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• There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Real, Technological Change, Suggestions

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• Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.

  William E. Simon

  Jobs, Innovation, Growth

  William E. Simon (1979). “Time for Truth”, Berkley

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• The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.

  Peter Singer

  Views, Progress, Development

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• Every technological product has to be designed and its fabrication overseen, and this is what engineers DO.

  Samuel Florman

  Engineers, Fabrication, Products

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• For me, experimentation is not about the technology. In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.

  Ze Frank

  Art, Technology, Keys

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• I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or craftsmanlike but technological, smooth and perfect. I blur things to make all the parts a closer fit. Perhaps I also blur out the excess of unimportant information.

  Gerhard

  Art, Perfect, Important

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• Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature’s services in a world of close to seven billion people.

  Achim Steiner

  Independent, Reality, People

  "Bee deaths may signal wider pollination threat: U.N." by Alister Doyle, www.reuters.com. March 10, 2011.

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• What was the good of industrial development, what was the good of all the technological innovations, toil, and population movements if, after half a century of industrial growth, the condition of the masses was still just as miserable as before, and all lawmakers could do was prohibit factory labor by children under the age of eight?

  Thomas Piketty

  Children, Eight, Innovation

  Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.8, Harvard University Press

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• We live in an extraordinary time. We are caught up in a pace of social and technological change that makes our work, our business and education, sources of anxiety and unfulfillment. Thinking about our thinking and observing our observations can bring us a new world in which work becomes a place for innovation, and in which peace, wisdom, friendship, companionship and community can exist. Let us design this world together.

  Fernando Flores

  Thinking, Technological Change, Design

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• Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.

  Nick Bostrom

  Civilization, Firsts, Niche

  Nick Bostrom (2014). “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies”, p.53, OUP Oxford

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• David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.

  Bruce Sterling

  Thinking, Needs, Trends

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• The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that started with biological evolution and has extended through human-directed technological evolution. however, it is precisely in the world of matter and energy that we encounter transcendence, a principal connotation of what people refer to as spirituality.

  Ray Kurzweil

  People, Energy, Next Steps

  Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.498, Penguin

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• Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.

  Ben Horowitz

  Years, Bars, Lasts

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• The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

  Kim Il-sung

  Hate, War, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the music industry did not invent the iPod or launch iTunes.

  Jason Epstein

  Horse, Technological Change, Ipods

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• The Cheney team had, for example, technological supremacy over the National Security Council staff. That is to say, they could read their e-mails. I remember one particular member of the N.S.C. staff wouldn't use e-mail because he knew they were reading it. He did a test case, kind of like the Midway battle, when we'd broken the Japanese code. He thought he'' broken the code, so he sent a test e-mail out that he knew would rile Scooter [Libby], and within an hour Scooter was in his office.

  Lawrence Wilkerson

  Team, Reading, Broken

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• A wise and clear-eyed book, Future Hype challenges the conventional wisdom about technological change and provides a fresh perspective on our so-called computer age.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Wise, Book, Technological Change

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• Some of the fantasy objects arising from cybernetic totalism (like the noosphere, which is a supposed global brain formed by the sum of all the human brains connected through the
  internet) happen to motivate infelicitous technological designs.
  For instance, designs that celebrate the noosphere tend to energize the inner troll, or bad actor, within humans.

  Jaron Lanier

  Design, Brain, Actors

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.45, Vintage

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• Geneva has a long history of hosting international organizations, which is part of the reason why CERN is here. CERN has signed agreements with the ITU, WIPO and the WMO. At first sight, there may not seem to be much common ground between CERN and, say, the World Meteorological Organization, but scratch the surface, and you'll soon find a common thread. All of these organizations have a vocation to stimulate technological innovation, and together we're stronger.

  Rolf-Dieter Heuer

  Sight, Agreement, Common Threads

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• Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do selfish, greedy, intolerant and violent things, scientific technology will provide you with by far the most efficient way of doing so. But if you want to do good, to solve the world's problems, to progress in the best value-laden sense, once again, there is no better means to those ends than the scientific way.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Mean, Science

  "The Evolutionary Future of Man". The Economist, Septermber 11, 1993.

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• We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.

  William Perry

  War, Technology, Age

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• Humanity is looking for a new story. The one it has embraced since the Renaissance is no longer viable. Despite all of its positive contributions to modern life, three hundred years of scientific-technological development has left our civilization in an untenable position-at odds with its natural environment and ultimately its own deeper, collective, soul. Only a global shift in fundamental perceptions, values, and corresponding actions will allow human-kind to resume an evolutionary pat in alignment with nature and the larger cosmos.

  Edmund Bourne

  Years, Civilization, Technological Development

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• Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.

  Serge Haroche

  Technology, Discovery, Rockets

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