#technology

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence. ↗

— Nam June Paik

#body #existence #inadequate #new #reality

Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When I read a novel, I don’t want credit cards; I want cash in ducats and gold doubloons. ↗

— Roman Payne

#cash #credit-cards #digital-age #gold #literary-style

People often pulled into Scientology want to address personal problems in their life, and Scientology says we have technology that addresses these kinds of problems. Just focusing on the problems and trying to remedy them can be helpful. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#focusing #helpful #into #just #kinds

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#affairs #development #geology #ground #happens

I'm not sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said. "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization -- that is, in spiritual civilization. It may be that they will not add to the beauty of the world, nor to the life of men's souls. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#technology #transportation #beauty

Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the computer. Code has no drawings of trains carrying a cargo of zeros and ones. Metaphors and similes are wonderful literary devices but they do nothing but obscure the beauty of technology. ↗

— Charles Petzold

#computer-science #programming #technology #beauty

Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants: Increasing efficiency Increasing opportunity Increasing emergence Increasing complexity Increasing diversity Increasing specialization Increasing ubiquity Increasing freedom Increasing mutualism Increasing beauty Increasing sentience Increasing structure Increasing evolvability ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#technology #beauty

HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#technology

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#technology

In attempting to construct such (artificially intelligent) machines we should not be irreverently usurping His (God's) power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children,” Turing had advised. “Rather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates. ↗

— Alan M. Turing

#technology #intelligence