#technologies

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#back #billion #go #invented #keep

A lot of the ideas or even individual technologies behind Khan Academy are not novel. ↗

— Salman Khan

#behind #even #ideas #individual #khan

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#could #facilitate #hygiene #install #police

The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#essentially #few #haven #problem #technologies

What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#altogether #biological #boundaries #bypass #dna

New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us. ↗

— Marc Garneau

#canada #great #great achievements #helped #innovative

Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#coming #each #flourishing #new #new ways

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil. ↗

— William Gibson

#become #evil #good #i #i think

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#birth #child #defect #easier #experimental

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