Technological Quotes - Page 16

• The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.

  Alex Comfort

  Technology, Important, Telephones

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• The widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in retrospect only those technologies that prove functional for a culture and can be integrated into everyday life are 'left over.' However, the perception of what is functional, successful and useful is itself the product of social and cultural--and last but not least--political and economic processes. Selection processes and abandoned products and product forms are usually not discussed.

  Johannes Grenzfurthner

  Successful, Technology, Political

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• Holland's and Kauffman's work, together with Dawkins' simulations of evolution and Varela's models of autopoietic systems, provide essential inspiration for the new discipline of artificial life, This approach, initiated by Chris Langton (1989, 1992), tries to develop technological systems (computer programs and autonomous robots) that exhibit lifelike properties, such as reproduction, sexuality, swarming, and co-evolution.

  John Henry Holland

  Inspiration, Discipline, Working Together

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• Nowadays, it is possible to perform various forms of Low-Impact listening via the telephone. The advent of technological advances such as computer games and online services (like ones that let you check stocks) have enabled Low-Impact listeners to endure family phone calls much longer than in the past. Dangers include mouse clicks, heavy typing, or a sudden loud buzzer that goes off when you have finished Boggle.

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Past, Games, Impact

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• To native peoples, there is no such thing as the first, second, and third worlds; there is only an exploiting world ... whether its technological system is capitalist or communist ... and a host world. Native peoples, who occupy more land, make up the host world.

  Winona LaDuke

  Land, World, Firsts

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• A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstrate new technological capabilities for future deep-space travel and to test spacecraft for long-duration spaceflight.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Opportunity, Space, Long

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• I believe that all technological societies tend to self-destruct. The reason is that the very things that make us a successful technological society, such as our curiosity, our ambition and determination, will also cause us to fall.

  Pete Seeger

  Determination, Believe, Fall

  Source: portside.org

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• I would ask, "How can one have a technological society without research? How can one have research without researching dangerous areas? How can one research dangerous areas without uncovering dangerous information? How can you uncover dangerous information without it falling into the hands of insane people who will sooner or later destroy the human race, if not the whole of life on earth?" Who knows? God only knows!

  Pete Seeger

  Fall, Race, Hands

  Source: portside.org

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• Right now, the technological world plus God or spirituality is evolving. I think America has become a little bit too corrupt, government's a little too corrupt, too greedy. Many corporations are too greedy. The labor unions are too greedy. That effects charities and religious organizations. I just think it's greed. That's why, in 1985, I had to figure out how to give before I received. The more I focus on giving, for less and less, the more and more I make.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Religious, Thinking, Government

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• An exploration of the challenges Korea faces in transforming its economy from a government-directed, low-cost producer to an innovative world economic power based on its own scientific and technological development.

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Government, Korea, Technological Development

  "Korea at the turning point: innovation-based strategies for development". Book by Lewis M. Branscomb and Young-Hwan Choi, 1996.

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• Science has been the absolute bedrock of technological and economic progress in the United States.

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Progress, United States, Economic

  "Scientist Lewis M. Branscomb Gives $1 Million Gift to Found New Center for Science and Democracy at UCS". ucsusa.org/news, April 30, 2012.

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• To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished--until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then all of a sudden my reaction changes from "How shiny and beautiful they all are!" to "Get that damned thing out of my mouth!

  Jaroslav Pelikan

  Beautiful, Bible, Jobs

  Jaroslav Pelikan (2006). “Whose Bible Is It?: A Short History of the Scriptures”, p.229, Penguin

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• We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Innovation, Needs, Generations

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• In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win! That evil will be banished somehow!

  Rufus Wainwright

  Believe, Winning, Evil

  "Nowt as queer as folk" by Kitty Empire, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2003.

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• Technological consciousness takes itself dead seriously; it has no sense of humor. The fool can play no role in it, for there is no other realm that is can see beyond itself to which the fool can point. Consciousness in the throes of desire cannot tolerate laughter any more than criticism of laughter can be tolerated in a moment of sexual lust.

  Donald Phillip Verene

  Laughter, Play, Lust

  Donald Phillip Verene (2013). “Moral Philosophy and the Modern World”, p.119, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The media is the thought-form of the technological society, and it finds nothing it does to be laughable, a sure sign that it is not human.

  Donald Phillip Verene

  Media, Doe, Form

  Donald Phillip Verene (2013). “Moral Philosophy and the Modern World”, p.119, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The promise of technology is to remove the division between culture and nature. Whatever part of nature that is left over as an independent force is covered by the technological bluff, which refers it to the agenda of the future and disguises the deficiencies of the present.

  Donald Phillip Verene

  Independent, Technology, Promise

  "Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge". Book by Donald Phillip Verene, 1997.

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• There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time.

  Jane Jacobs

  Fashion, Lying, Dwelling

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.216, Vintage

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• The rate of technological and human physiological change in the 20th century has been remarkable. Beyond that, a synergy between the improved technology and physiology is more than the simple addition of the two.

  Robert Fogel

  Technology, Simple, Two

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• We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way norms and standards change.

  Atul Gawande

  Talking, People, Way

  "Literature about medicine may be all that can save us" by Andrew Solomon, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2016.

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• The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.

  Drew Gilpin Faust

  War, Characteristics, Combination

  "This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War". Book by Drew Gilpin Faust, 2008.

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• By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding technological progress and productivity growth.

  Mark Krikorian

  Growth, Progress, Immigration

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• The technological overflow from scientific research has brought scientific research this bad name about carrying an irresponsibility and an alienation from God - because scientific research has led to things like the atom bomb, it's led to problems with depletion of ozone in the Earth's atmosphere, or at least it's revealed those problems.

  George Coyne

  Ozone, Names, Atmosphere

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you have technological progress, that will encourage more capitalist system. On the other hand, if you don't, if things are stalled, you end up with much more of a zero sum type thing, where there's no progress and basically everybody's gain is somebody else's loss.

  Peter Thiel

  Zero, Loss, Hands

  Interviewed with Victoria Brown, bigthink.com. November 15, 2010.

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• I'm in favor of free trade, but I think if you had to make a choice between having technological progress versus free trade, you had one or the other, you should always pick technological progress. I think it's an incredibly important variable for creating more prosperity.

  Peter Thiel

  Thinking, Creating, Choices

  Interviewed with Victoria Brown, bigthink.com. November 15, 2010.

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