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• Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.

  Harold Innis

  Cutting, Needs, Fragments

  Harold A. Innis, Daniel Drache (1995). “Staples, Markets, and Cultural Change: Selected Essays”, p.323, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.

  Francois-Henri Pinault

  Way, Computer, User Interface

  "Meet Le Geek: Francois-Henri Pinault". Interview with Joe Einhorn, techcrunch.com. August 5, 2012.

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• I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.

  Daniel Ek

  Growing Up, Passion, Two

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• The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Study, Tradition, Faculty

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• If we are genuinely concerned about the environment and the fellow human beings, and want to end territorial disputes, war, crime, poverty, hunger, and the other problems that confront us today, the intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction – one that will serve all people, and not just a select few.

  Jacque Fresco

  War, Intelligent, People

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• The fact that cultures are failing all over the world means that they don't know how to operate a society to make it work.  Politicians have no real knowledge of technology; therefore, they are not capable of increasing food production, designing transportations systems that are safe…  They have no knowledge in that area.  Therefore it's senseless to talk to them about anything of significance.

  Jacque Fresco

  Real, Mean, Design

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• Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future.  For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples.

  Jacque Fresco

  Decision, Firsts, Action

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• Only when science and technology are used with human concern in a world in which all of the earth's resources are held as the common heritage of all of the earth's people can we truly say that there is intelligent life on Earth.

  Jacque Fresco

  Intelligent, People, Heritage

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• More than anything else, technology will pave the way for innovative change at Starbucks. The bulk of Starbucks' innovation over the next several years will be technology-focused.

  Howard Schultz

  Years, Innovation, Way

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• Please believe in THE POWER OF ONE.  One person can make an enormous difference in the world. One person - actually, one idea - can start a war, or end one, or subvert an entire power structure. One discovery can cure a disease or spawn new technology to benefit or annihilate the human race. You as ONE individual can change millions of lives. Think big. Do not limit your vision and do not ever compromise your dreams or ideals.

  Iris Chang

  Dream, War, Believe

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• There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.

  Douglas Trumbull

  Independent, Consistency, Pops

  "Trumbull's Vision". Interview with Jeff Greenwald, www.wired.com. January 1, 1997.

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• I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.

  Douglas Trumbull

  Believe, Next, Bigs

  "Trumbull's Vision" by Jeff Greenwald, www.wired.com. January 01, 1997.

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• Technology is everything that doesn’t work yet.

  Danny Hillis

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• The online shopping paradigm is finally changing. Indeed, I think we’ve seen more innovation in the last 10 months than in the last 10 years. We’ve seen an explosion of interesting technologies and opportunities that seek to change online shopping.

  Josh Kopelman

  Opportunity, Thinking, Shopping

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• For me as a kid, reading cyberpunk was like seeing the world for the first time. Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't just stylistically stunning; it felt like the template for a future that we were actively building. I remember reading Sterling's Islands in the Net and suddenly understanding the disruptive potential of technology once it got out into the street. Cyberpunk felt urgent. It wasn't the future 15 minutes out - it was the future sideswiping you and leaving you in a full-body cast as it passed by.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Reading, Kids, Islands

  "How Cyberpunk Saved Sci-Fi" by Paolo Bacigalupi, www.wired.com. June 20, 2012.

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• Good designers must always be avant-gardists, always one step ahead of the times. They should – and must – question everything generally thought to be obvious. They must have an intuition for people’s changing attitudes. For the reality in which they live, for their dreams, their desires, their worries, their needs, their living habits. They must also be able to assess realistically the opportunities and bounds of technology.

  Dieter Rams

  Dream, Attitude, Creativity

  "Dieter Rams/ Profile". designmuseum.org.

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• The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.

  Neil Postman

  Inevitable, Unpredictable, Effects

  Neil Postman (2011). “The Disappearance of Childhood”, p.24, Vintage

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• Social media is less about technology and more about anthropology, sociology, and ethnography.

  Brian Solis

  Media, Sociology, Social

  Brian Solis (2011). “Engage!, Revised and Updated: The Complete Guide for Brands and Businesses to Build, Cultivate, and Measure Success in the New Web”, p.3, John Wiley & Sons

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• Instead of the primitive raw material economy, we will create a smart economy generating unique knowledge, new useful things and technologies. Instead of the archaic society, in which the leaders think and make decisions for everyone, we will become a country of intelligent, free and responsible people.

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Country, Smart, Intelligent

  "Medvedev wants Russia to go hi-tech" by Maxim Tkachenko, edition.cnn.com. November 12, 2009.

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• Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

  David Bromstad

  Color, Design, Fabric

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• MapReduce has become the assembly language for big data processing, and SnapReduce employs sophisticated techniques to compile SnapLogic data integration pipelines into this new big data target language. Applying everything we know about the two worlds of integration and Hadoop, we built our technology to directly fit MapReduce, making the process of connectivity and large scale data integration seamless and simple.

  Greg Benson

  Simple, Data, Two

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• There's so much technology [in the Batman movies] that's unbelievable and seems unreal, so it's hard trying to get the audience to believe that it all exists. So we got Morgan Freeman to tell them that it's real. And that is why Christopher Nolan is a genius.

  Michael Uslan

  Real, Believe, Trying

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• If you look at the history of communication, new technologies like the phone and e-mail didnt just let people do things faster; it fundamentally changed the scope of the kinds of projects people dared to take on.

  Justin Rosenstein

  Communication, Phones, People

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• But at its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking storiesand that requires virtually no technology.

  Steven Levitan

  Jobs, People, Sitting Down

  "Lloyd Braun and Steven Levitan Live at D8". Liveblog, allthingsd.com. June 2, 2010.

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• Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new: Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion, each new creator building on the works of those who came before. Overprotection stifles the very creative forces it's supposed to nurture.

  Alex Kozinski

  Creativity, Fire, Creative

  White v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., 989 F.2d 1512 (9th Cir. 1993), March 18, 1993.

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