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There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a...

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Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

The nice thing about twitter is the architecture of visibility. Email is invisible unless you reach ...

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It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

The business we're in is more sociological than technological, more dependent on workers' abilities ...

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Tom DeMarcoPeopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leadin...

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There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets...

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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.

Away and away the aeroplane shot, till it was nothing but a bright spark; an aspiration; a concentra...

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The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappo...

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Walker PercyLost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneli...

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The moderns, carrying little baggage of the kind that Shelly called "merely cultural," not even livi...

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Hertzfeld recalled that Gates just sat there coolly, looking at Steve in the eye, before hurling bac...

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On its first over was the famous picture of Earth taken from space; its subtitle was "Access to Tool...

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You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately i...

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The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that ev...

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My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we s...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

That one American farmer can now feed himself and fifty-six other people may be, within the narrow v...

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Wendell BerryThe Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the s...

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Basic research is when I'm doing what I don't know what I'm doing.

If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why,...

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That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applicat...

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She hung up before he could say goodbye. Stood there with her arm cocked, phone at ear-level, sudden...

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Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order o...

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Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I'v...

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Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (ca...

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The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean ...

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I've heard my teacher say, where there are machines, there are bound to be machine worries; where th...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough res...

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There is a world out there, so new, so random and disassociated that it puts us all in danger. We ta...

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I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a c...

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People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on wh...

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Standing before costly objects of technological beauty, we may be tempted to reject the possibility ...

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Alain de BottonA Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary

To live in modernity--an era contemporaneous with the triumph of the news--is to be constantly remin...

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For thousands of years, it had been nature--and its supposed creator--that had had a monopoly on awe...

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Alain de BottonThe Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent techno...

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Technology is anything invented after you were born.

I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication techn...

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I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation ...

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No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth ti...

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It is the theory which decided what can be observed.

E = MC^2: Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.

As far as the laws of Mathematics refer to reality they are not certain and as far as they are cer...

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Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logical...

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Science without religion is lame religion without science is blind.

I'm thankful God has given us the technology where we can see each other through Skype on the comput...

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Research is to see what everybody has seen and to think what nobody else has thought.

And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately as...

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Aldous HuxleyBrave New World / Brave New World Revisited

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would...

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I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wonde...

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Information age. I guess I'm part of it, even if I can't remember how to use my iPhone from week to ...

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Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art...

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.""Two possibilities exist: Eith...

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Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind ...

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1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certai...

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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Arthur C. ClarkeProfiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible

She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web...

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Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied ...

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We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them ...

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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once yo...

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A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer progra...

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Bill BrysonI'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away

Did you ever spell a word so bad that your spell check has absolutely no clue what you're trying to ...

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America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the ...

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Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can ...

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The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient opera...

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The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the te...

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New Rule: You can't force the ATM to do something it doesn't want to do. Excuse me, lady in front of...

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Bill MaherThe New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

New Rule: Apple's next device must be a computer that you control with your tongue. Thanks for elimi...

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Bill MaherThe New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

New Rule: Stop putting psychedelic screensavers on computers. I sit down to check my e-mail, and the...

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Bill MaherThe New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

I'm all for poetry catching up with technology, and just as there are iTunes, I think we should have...

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Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information te...

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What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. T...

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Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.

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

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Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spie...

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Even though we don't know which companies the NSA has compromised – or by what means – knowing that ...

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Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its...

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We should've asked China to be a portion of the space station. We should've worked out ways that we ...

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For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.

He watched the desert slip under the airship's nose, and the land roughened into highlands over whic...

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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and techno...

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We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a pre...

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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows a...

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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and techno...

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As in all such technological nightmares, the principal task is to foresee what is possible; to educa...

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Carl SaganDragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

I find these comparisons particularly poignant: life versus death, hope versus fear. Space explorati...

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Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the ...

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Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

TV takes away our freedom to have whatever thoughts we want. So do photographs, movies, and the Inte...

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Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary.

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Chuck KlostermanI Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains

I won't say that all senior citizens who can't master technology should be publicly flogged, but if ...

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Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've sp...

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