#techno

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope. ↗

— James Gunn

#change #character #characters #cope #environment

The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#display #harm #hope #minimum #should

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#again #conducted #during #had #hoped

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#cool #friends #like #once #out

We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers. ↗

— Daryl Hannah

#big #car #cars #companies #conservation

A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#changing #counterproductive #especially #freeze #important

Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#coming #conditions #criteria #decision #domestic

A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#assemblage #before #defines #how #ideas

Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#everybody #future #live #participate #technology

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#because #cases #caught #fact #forget