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Hackers rarely have full knowledge of the technology stack of a target.

Technology is a means, not an end, no matter how brilliant it appears. How we use digital technology...

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The ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that’s indiffere...

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Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for it...

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In Technology We Trust. Need to put that on the new hundred-dollar bill.

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to techn...

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Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.

Though many have tried no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science which can...

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This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just...

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

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Jules VerneTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.

[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illus...

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In those years before mobile phones, email and Skype, travelers depended on the rudimentary communic...

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Technology's related to everything. Technology is making the world more accessible, so yeah, as gene...

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Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulge...

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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

Modern scientific accomplishments" --a wealth of methods coupled with a poverty of intentions which,...

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Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full c...

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Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants:Increasing efficiencyIncreasing opportunityIncreasing...

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Ethics change with technology.

I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communicat...

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The computer may be incompetent in itself--that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed....

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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

Let us fool ourselves no longer. At the very moment Western nations, threw off the ancient regime of...

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Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary...

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I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a communit...

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Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of thi...

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Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion o...

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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes ...

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I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylum...

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No wires tender even as nervescan transmit the impact ofour seasons, our catastropheswhile we are cl...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Animals in That Country

The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only...

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Marianne WilliamsonThe Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life

Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a cr...

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We have to face the fact that countries are going to lose jobs to robotics. The only question that n...

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A modern revolutionary group, explained Abbie Hoffman, headed for the television station, not the fa...

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The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. ...

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The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.

Our technology forces us to live mythically

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age ...

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First we build the tools, then they build us.

Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. Bu...

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But what help is it to us to look into the constellation of truth? We look into the danger and see t...

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Martin HeideggerThe Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays

In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a ...

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The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically...

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But today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain ...

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Through our scientific and technological genius we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now thr...

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Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For i...

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In science all facts no matter how trivial or banal enjoy democratic equality.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and ...

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Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

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Max BrooksWorld War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Technology - the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

We want to empower the doctors and patients to get all the other assholes out of the way,' Clark had...

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Michael Lewis (author)The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

He was the guy who always won the game of chicken because his opponents suspected he might actually ...

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Michael Lewis (author)The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

Anyway, when sophisticated technology fails, primitive technology steps in to do the job.

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Michel FaberThe Book of Strange New Things

Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology. B...

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Science and technology are the engines of prosperity. Of course, one is free to ignore science and t...

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We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will...

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Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health

Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they sp...

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Just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatever you call it... a speelycaptor....

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Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human bein...

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We're not hunter-gatherers anymore. We're all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a h...

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Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence. Technology is a yong ass...

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I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed o...

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Sometimes I think it is because we remember when we could smoke in pubs, and that we pull our phones...

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Neil GaimanTrigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

It's not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be able to...

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...people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities t...

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If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technol...

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Of course, in television's presentation of the "news of the day," we may see the Now...this" mode of...

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Neil PostmanAmusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.

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Neil PostmanAmusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized b...

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Neil PostmanAmusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

For no medium is excessively dangerous if its users understand what its dangers are. It is not impor...

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Neil PostmanAmusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communicatio...

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Neil PostmanAmusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

What’s wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technol...

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Neil PostmanHow to Watch TV News

Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about...

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Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once wa...

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Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliab...

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Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors,...

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All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked w...

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While games are fun to play, children should grow up not just being the consumers of technology but ...

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You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

Thinking is a human feature. Will AI someday really think? That's like asking if submarines swim. If...

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Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. T...

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Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence...

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Conceive a world-society developed materially far beyond the wildest dreams of America. Unlimited po...

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What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock ...

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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

At root, I think that any given technology (think nuclear power, gunpowder, the written word...) has...

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Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in...

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Jobs offshoring began with manufacturing, but the rise of the high-speed Internet made it possible t...

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The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people ...

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Paul TherouxThe Kingdom by the Sea

P15 - Our advanced technological society is rapidly making objects of us and subtly programming us i...

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Nobody that has seen a baby born can believe in god for a second. When you see your child born, and ...

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