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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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Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy ...

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Something is wrong that we have to feed so many. Why should there be poverty with all of our science...

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Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.

For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hu...

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Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic researc...

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Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us is now electronically connecte...

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Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our i...

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Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out k...

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Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuc...

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What, exactly, is the Internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a...

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The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since th...

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In the kitchen, I turn on a TV set that has hundreds of channels devoted to every conceivable subjec...

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Dave BarryI'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood

It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.You don't expect a thousand people to line ...

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Surveillance shouldn't be the tradeoff for any goddamn service we get.

He handed Mae a piece of paper, on which he'd written, in crude all capitals, a list of assertions u...

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Here though, there are no oppressors. No one's forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to...

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Director of Ensuring the Future

Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing wit...

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During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has wove...

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I was aware that I was taking inordinate pleasure in small, technological events and objects, and th...

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

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In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was a...

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The “self-actualization” philosophy from which most of this new bureaucratic language emerged insist...

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To some people, there is no noise on earth as exciting as the sound of three or four big fan-jet eng...

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I wonder who had the first computer dream, where, and when? I wonder if computers ever dream of huma...

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Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did ...

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At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loade...

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Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science...

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I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music ...

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

Technology is crucial to civilization why? Because it helps us make our fate. We don't need God or m...

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It was uncanny. You press a button and a man drops dead a hundred meters away. It seemed hollow and ...

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A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the e...

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You could put your faith in technology. It got you here, it can get you out" - Murray (WN 285).

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Don DeLilloWhite Noise: Text and Criticism

This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It th...

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Don DeLilloWhite Noise: Text and Criticism

When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably ...

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Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented we'...

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First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with AS...

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We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same bo...

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Wow. Whoops. Sorry. ... I just lost two hours inside a YouTube kitten warp.

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Douglas CouplandThe Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-clean...

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The Machine stops.""What do you say?""The Machine is stopping, I know it, I know the signs."She burs...

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But the wireless," asked Momulla. "What has the wireless to do with our remaining here?" "Oh yes," r...

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To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, ...

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil litt...

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Today's science is tomorrow's technology.

By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they un...

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Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly -...

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Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that clo...

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

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I don't know where anyone ever got the idea that technology, in and of itself, was a savior. Like al...

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I fear for the world the Internet is creating. Before the advent of the web, if you wanted to sustai...

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Ellen UllmanLife in Code: A Personal History of Technology

It is best to be the CEO; it is satisfactory to be an early employee, maybe the fifth or sixth or pe...

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Ellen UllmanLife in Code: A Personal History of Technology

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valle...

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An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never...

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Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the...

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

It is an irony of history that the first and greatest success of scientists in persuading government...

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Eric HobsbawmHow to Change the World: Marx and Marxism 1840-2011

There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is th...

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If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compressio...

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I consider it extremely doubtful whether the happiness of the human race has been enhanced by the te...

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The problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human ele...

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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the...

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We have not noticed how fast the rest has risen. Most of the industrialized world--and a good part o...

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I point out to you, Marcus Claire Luyseyal, a lesson from past over-machined societies which you app...

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Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. Peopl...

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Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good e...

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Technology would have long ago made privacy impossible, except that this had only made it more preci...

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Gene RoddenberryStar Trek I: The Motion Picture

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisu...

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The computer focuses ruthlessly on things that can be represented in numbers. In so doing, it seduce...

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George FriedmanThe Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest – sometimes with ex...

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George FriedmanThe Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoa...

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To begin with, there is the frightful debauchery of taste that has already been effected by a centur...

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The sensitive person's hostility to the machine is in one sense unrealistic, because of the obvious ...

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George OrwellThe Road to Wigan Pier

If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathem...

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The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.

There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a ...

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There is also a trilogy of books out. I started reading right after Christmas Divergent. I went to r...

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Thanks is part to our education system, we tend to think that we're smarter than the stupid guys in ...

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Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a...

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Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the po...

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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be ex...

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This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation.

He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.

Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks but an accumulation of facts is no mor...

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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They ar...

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Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media c...

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War yet shall be, but warriors are now operatives; war's made less grand than peace.

However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that s...

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