#technologies

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission. ↗

— James Buchan

#been #carriages #catastrophic #century #electricity

I also believe that we have an extraordinary opportunity for the United States and European Union to lead the world in developing and implementing new and more efficient technologies - smart electrical grids and electrical vehicles. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#believe #developing #efficient #electrical #european

Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#america #build #climate #companies #cutting-edge

Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#energy #even #investors #new #over

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society. ↗

— Paul Berg

#biology #human #human values #ideas #impact

Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century. ↗

— John Doerr

#bigger #biggest #century #could #economic

Still, there may be technologies that are very useful in identifying people over the age of 18 because they have all kinds of identifying characteristics, while those same tech may be useless for 12- and 13-year-olds. ↗

— Richard Blumenthal

#because #characteristics #identifying #kinds #may

We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#address #demand #develop #further #future

Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#degradation #demand #dependence #environmental #foreign

I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#aspects #computers #degenerate #economic #economic system