#techno

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#china #degrees #engineering #half #math

James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies. ↗

— Joe Morton

#always #been #cameron #curve #his

Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#allow #clearly #could #into #lives

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

#contemporary #contemporary life #describe #facts #find

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

— Richard Powers

#becomes #been #goal #invisible #mediation

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

#determine #itself #never #should #technology

As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories. ↗

— David Rose

#company #fastest #going #known #market

Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man’s inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,—in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home? ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#possessions #technology #travel #beauty

In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#ever #important #industrial #more #science