#technological

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#better #better place #community #each #everybody

The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#beneficial #breakthrough #enormously #society #technological

Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#badly #biggest #both #changes #done

In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#camera #classical #i #modification #oil

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

— Northrop Frye

#efficient #ever #invented #machine #man

Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#believe #computer #into #man #measured

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new. ↗

— Michael Eisner

#cannot #change #current #entertainment #escape

The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#technology #tools #technology

Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents. ↗

— Rod Blagojevich

#families #far #kids #many #parents

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#also #effects #hazards #increase #our