#technology

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#liberty #spying #surveillance #surveillance-society #technology

[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#progress #science #technology #science

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#errors #technology #technology

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#advanced #advanced technology #any #indistinguishable #magic

A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#technology #technology

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#technology

Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#technology

There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb. ↗

— George W. Bush

#technology #technology

If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good. ↗

— John Twelve Hawks

#science-fiction #technology #science

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. ↗