#tech

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

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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

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I have a vision that's about technology that empowers consumers over institutions. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

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More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with web navigation, email access and participation in social media. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

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We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing. ↗

— Richard Powers

#anxieties #build #capable #desires #doing

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science. ↗

— Richard Powers

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My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible. ↗

— Richard Powers

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Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living. ↗

— Richard Powers

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What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work. ↗

— Richard Powers

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