#technological

Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks. ↗

— Dee Hock

#acceptance #any #around #centuries #device

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#altered #based #basis #deeply #discoveries

Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#demands #essential #individual #link #mass

Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#collaboration #distance #even #field #forces

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#efficient #ever #invented #machine #man

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#human #human progress #maybe #our #overshadowed

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same. ↗

— Charles Mengel Allen

#board #human #more #motives #same

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

— John Badham

#excited #germans #get #japanese #real

There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#ahead #awfully #been #change #developments

We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#brain #brains #clever #collectively #endeavors