#techno

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#lifetime #lived #may #our #out

I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#agenda #am #any #basic #basic human rights

Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#creative #else #exist #expression #human

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships. ↗

— Michael Dell

#also #business #customer #operations #our

Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes. ↗

— David Deutsch

#be the first #between #collaboration #computation #distinctively

I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#communications #cryptography #did #expect #expected

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#audio #companies #computers #go #me

Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#depend #gets #got #likewise #nanotechnology

Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#common #common sense #doing #enhance #first

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#each #find #generation #individuals #lucky