Technology Quotes - Page 11

The Internet is the Petri dish of humanity. We can't control what grows in it, but we don't have to watch either.

[N]ew technology enables new kinds of group-forming.

[B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain activities may have some value but not enough to make them worth pursuing in any organized way. New social tools are altering this equation by lowering the costs of coordinating group action.

The cameras were electronic monsters, moving with them as they walked and staring with one big, perverted eye.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

As each wave of technology is released. It must be accompanied by a demand for new skills, new language. Consumers must constantly update their ways of thinking, always questioning their understanding of the world. Going back to old ways, old technology is forbidden. There in no past, no present, only an endless future of inadequacy

It's not technology that limits us. We're the limitation. Our technology is an expression of our intelligence and creativity, so the limitations of our technology are a reflection of our own limitations. We can't fundamentally advance technology until we fundamentally advance ourselves.

I have a dream, there will be critical point in the future,
where economics and technology will negate each other.

It was summer and moonlight and we had lemonade to drink, and we held the cold glasses in our hands, and Dad read the stereo-newspapers inserted into the special hat you put on your head and which turned the microscopic page in front of the magnifying lens if you blinked three times in succession.

The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible.

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

We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

Director of Ensuring the Future

The OPA man, Anderson Dawes, was sitting on a cloth folding chair outside Miller's hole, reading a book. It was a real book - onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller had seen pictures of them before; the idea of that much weight for a single megabyte of data struck him as decadent.

Today's science is tomorrow's technology.

The woman was simply leaving us alone with our future, the future she wouldn't be a part of. She didn't know how to do it or what it was, but she was trying to give it to us.

The externalization of memory [via the use of external symbolic storage systems] has altered the actual memory architecture within which humans think, which is changing the role of biological memory, the way in which the human brain deploys its resources, and the form of modern culture.

As revolutionary as it may be, the Net is best understood as the latest in a long series of tools that have helped mold the human mind.

Creative is my god. Technology my cherished lover.