#tech

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#being #consciousness #electronic #extension #form

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#cultural #despair #emerge #feeling #great

The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it. ↗

— Scott McNealy

#because #charge #could #dollars #english

We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#cost #crops #grow #inherently #less

Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#idea #most #nanotechnology #people #simply

A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#build #directly #first #first time #let us

As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#ahead #although #any #balance #come

If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#block #develop #development #effectively #ensured

If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#dealing #head #look #most #new

If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#might #potential #technology #think #worry