#technology

Thanks is part to our education system, we tend to think that we're smarter than the stupid guys in funny wigs who came before us. But that's because we are mistaking technology, progress, and access to information for intelligence. We think that because we know how to use iPhones (but not build them), browse the Internet (but not understand how it works), and use Google (but not really know anything), our educational system is working just great. By the same token, we think that those dumb aristocrats who used horses to get around and didn't have electricity were neanderthals. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#intelligence #progress #technology #united-states #education

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#becomes #everything #face #little #technology

The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers. ↗

— Dan Glickman

#consumers #deliver #entertainment #find #industry

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever. ↗

— David Bowie

#either #ethical #hard #humanists #immortal

When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice. ↗

— Michael Joseph Brown

#professional-development #technology #technology-vs-liberal-arts #art

We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery. ↗

— Donald Evans

#development #discovery #economy #education #ensure

For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date. ↗

— Laurent Fabius

#advances #analysis #automatic #believed #costs

The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport. ↗

— Laurent Fabius

#advances #china #costs #countries #demographic

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift. ↗

— Wernher von Braun

#best #confirmation #first #get #gift

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#ideas #literally #new #new ideas #technology