Technological Quotes - Page 23

• Either Stone Age man was a technological wizard, who carefully removed his technological achievements so as not to upset his inferior progeny, or our population dwindled from a once astronomical size to the mere three billions of today.

  Heinz von Foerster

  Men, Upset, Age

  "Population Density and Growth". "Science", Vol 133, June 16, 1961.

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• The clustering of technological innovation in time and space helps explain both the uneven growth among nations and the rise and decline of hegemonic powers.

  Robert Gilpin

  Space, Innovation, Growth

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.109, Princeton University Press

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• Technological change is beneficial only when other jobs replace the ones lost.

  Robert Kuttner

  Jobs, Technological Change, Lost

  The Guardian Weekly, August 08, 1993.

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• Technological advance often thrives in sheltered and subsidized markets, which defy free trade.

  Robert Kuttner

  Thrive, Trade, Free Trade

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.97, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• I'm influenced by the music of the '60s. It's a mishmash of everything. To me, psychedelic can be all the way to a DJ. House music can be very psychedelic. 'Flying Lotus' is very psychedelic. Even though it's urban and technological, it's also mind-expanding, anything-can-go mishmash.

  Anton Newcombe

  House, Flying, Mind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Strategies for research and policy development must simultaneously address people's needs, the capacity of programs to provide good quality of care, and the range of technological options available.

  Ruth Simmons

  People, Quality, Needs

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Real, Mean

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• Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

  Pope Paul VI

  Opportunity, Joy, Pleasure

  Pope Paul VI (2007). “Christian Values and Virtues”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

  Adrienne Rich

  Running, Thinking, Romance

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• Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.

  A.C. Grayling

  Religious, Technology, Night

  A.C. Grayling (2010). “The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century”, p.70, Hachette UK

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• Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—-to the “conquest” of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.

  Alan Watts

  Intelligent, Technology, Men

  Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.112, New World Library

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• Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.

  Kevin Spacey

  Advancement, Shifting, Sand

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• I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.

  Ansel Adams

  Eye, Creative, Innovation

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• Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

  Vernor Vinge

  Mean, Years, Eras

  "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era". Vernor Vinge's remarks presented at the VISION-21 Symposium sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center and the Ohio Aerospace Institute, edoras.sdsu.edu. March 30-31, 1993.

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• Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history. The implications include the merger of biological and nonbiological intelligence, immortal software-based humans, and ultra-high levels of intelligence that expand outward in the universe at the speed of light.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Light, Technological Change, Profound

  "Want to impress your friends? Tell them internet growth is sigmoidal, not exponential" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2007.

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• It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

  Neil Postman

  Contradiction, Diversion, Insensible

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• Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.

  Marvin Bower

  Philosophy, Organization, Achievement

  MARVIN BOWER (1966). “THE WILL TO MANAGE CORPORATE THROUGH PROGRAMMED MANAGEMENT”

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• You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

  Walker Percy

  Life, Men, Ideas

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• We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Children, Book, Reading

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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• We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

  Akio Morita

  Teamwork, Heart, Exercise

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• The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  World, Breakthrough, Beneficial

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• Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.

  Jamais Cascio

  Community, Innovation, Working Together

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• A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that

  Dan Gable

  Wrestling, Judging, Athletic

  Gable, Dan (1998). “Coaching Wrestling Successfully”, p.25, Human Kinetics

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• Bitcoin is a technological tour de force

  Bill Gates

  Bitcoin, Force

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• Humans are not disabled. A person can never be broken. Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled. We the people need not accept our limitations, but can transcend disability through technological innovation.

  Hugh Herr

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Technology

  "How Do You Reinvent Yourself After a Near-Death Experience?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 19, 2014.

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