#techno

Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#help #hero #him #indiana #indiana jones

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society. ↗

— Paul Berg

#biology #human #human values #ideas #impact

Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies. ↗

— Paul Berg

#created #diseases #embargo #exists #many

V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#books #cool #culture #desire #emotion

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#events #i #i think #instead #more

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#singularity #technological #will

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#argued #cannot #coming #competitiveness #consequence

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#annoying #expression #machine #more #near

The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers. ↗

— Mike Ferguson

#both #change #consumers #impressive #pace

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#available #favor #i #makes #price