#techno

An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#international #leads #long #long run #motivated

My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#arms #arms race #attention #concern #controls

Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#area #comes #engineering #issues #machines

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age. ↗

— Matt Blunt

#age #changes #economy #government #internet

Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people. ↗

— Matt Blunt

#deserve #government #people #serve #taxpayers

Well, first of all, we now have everybody with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Israel, and I don't think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive, in terms of technology. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#everybody #exception #first #first of all #going

Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect. ↗

— Brigitte Boisselier

#especially #every #every time #get #introduced

The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors. ↗

— Kit Bond

#defense #endeavors #future #india #just

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever. ↗

— David Bowie

#either #ethical #hard #humanists #immortal

We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery. ↗

— Donald Evans

#development #discovery #economy #education #ensure