#techno

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#modern-life #modern-society #modernity #modernity-is-a-sickness #slavery

You could put your faith in technology. It got you here, it can get you out" - Murray (WN 285). ↗

— Don DeLillo

#faith

That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships--although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies. ↗

— Rodney Stark

#inventions #technology #faith

The Crystal Wind is the storm, and the storm is data, and the data is life. You have been slaves, denied the storm, denied the freedom of your data. That is now ended; the whirlwind is upon you . . . . . . Whether you like it or not. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#data #digital-liberty #digital-rights #information #internet

Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#convicts #defendants #dna #evidence #finds

The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#acquiring #china #designs #equipment #gave

The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies. ↗

— Estelle Morris

#expanded #government #improved #increased #information

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be. ↗

— John Phillips

#faster #flexible #makes #more #not perfect

Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#invest #invested #money #much #our

I love my DSL, but I love my WiFi more. And I probably get on the Internet 40 percent to 50 percent more because of the combination of those technologies. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#combination #get #i #i love #internet