Remember when technology was fun?
The future ain't what is used to be...
(YouTube video: the official trailer for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, which premiered 45 years ago, on April 2, 1968.)
A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like
a form of propaganda- often persuasive, almost always wrong.
-Pamela
McCorduck
All scientifically possible technology and social change predicted in
science fiction will come to pass, but none of it will work properly.
-Neil
Gaiman
All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
-David
Ross Brower
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged
demo.
-James Klass
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
-Arthur
C. Clarke
Cheese in an aerosol can is the greatest advance in technology since
fire.
-James Angove
Each fall at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, football fans
cheer for their favorite irrational number: “Cosine, secant, tangent,
sine, three point one four one five nine!”
-Bruce Watson
Engineers are always honest in matters of technology and human
relationships. That's why it's a good idea to keep engineers away from
ustomers, romantic interests, and other people who can't handle the
truth.
(From Engineers Explained)
-Unattributed
Even though today's technology provides us with mountains of data, it is
useless without judgment.
-Felix G. Rohatyn
Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in
Hamburger Technology.
-Clive James
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality
of life, please press three.
-Alice Kahn
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public
relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
-Richard P. Feynman
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
-Buckminster
Fuller
I may be just an empty flesh terminal relying on technology for all y
ideas, memories and relationships, but I am confident that all of that,
everything that makes me a unique human being, is still out there,
somewhere, safe in the theoretical storage space owned by giant
ulti-national corporations.
-Stephen Colbert
If the Catholic church couldn't stop Galileo, then governments won't be
able to stop things now.
(re: regulation of information technology.)
-Carlo
de Benedetti
If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be
easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough
ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself
with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is
gambling in human lives.
-Freeman Dyson
If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva
Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.
-Ed
Turner
In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare
out of the window. Nowadays, because of the marvels of convergent
technology, the thing you type on and the window you stare out of are
now the same thing.
-Douglas Adams
[Information Technology] people are so hypnotized by the technology hey
don't look for real results.
-Peter Drucker
Levitt's First Law of Information Technology:
If it's free, adopt it.
-Unattributed
[N]either technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you,
because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever
had.
-James Gleick
Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the
steamroller, you're part of the road.
-Stewart Brand
One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will
perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving
with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.
-Anton Chekhov
Screams erupted at a nearby hotel, where Microsoft founder Bill Gates
was addressing an education and technology conference.
(Associated
Press report of a Seattle earthquake)
-Unattributed
Technology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we need not
experience it.
-Max Frisch
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand
what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not
understand.
-Unattributed
Technology is really civilization, let's face it.
-Arthur C. Clarke
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything,
except over technology.
-John Tudor
Technology today is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
There's this attraction to light and to this kind of power, which is
both warm and destructive.
-Laurie Anderson
The Bible, it seems certain, was the work of sand-strewn men and women
who thought the earth was flat and for whom a wheelbarrow would have
been a breathtaking example of emerging technology.
-Sam Harris
The human race has today the means for annihilating itself-either in a
fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war, by a brief fit of
destruction, or by careless handling of atomic technology, through a
slow process of poisoning and of deterioration in its genetic structure.
-Max
Born
The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic
emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is
terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis
overall.
-E.O. Wilson
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology- the tendency to
do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
-Robert Pirsig
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
works.
-Douglas Adams
We have lots of information technology. We just don't have any
information.
(New Yorker cartoon caption)
-Sydney J. Harris
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly
depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that
almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription
for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later
this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in
our faces.
-Carl Sagan
While modern technology has given people powerful new communication
tools, it apparently can do nothing to alter the fact that many people
have nothing useful to say.
-Lee Gomes
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