#techno

I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#be the first #benefits #coming #course #discussed

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

Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about. ↗

— John Badham

#excited #germans #get #japanese #real

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#dictate #either #extent #increasing #languages

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living. ↗

— Toni Cade Bambara

#living #might #religion #technology #you

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#culture #finally #get #living #networks

We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#fact #fanatics #great #great time #having

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#faith #give #good #important #nothing

Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry. ↗

— Michael Oxley

#certainly #commerce #electronic #estate #had