Quotes by Technology I can keep learning about all the different technologies. It's my most telling characteristic. I'm interested in trying anything new. Martha Stewart technologydifferenttrying During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic schools that concentrated on the practicalities of engineering and construction rather than the niceties of stylistic correctness or adherence to established precedent. Martin Filler engineeringtechnologyschool My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant. Marshall McLuhan technologyageyears In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant usually proves a greater plague than the initial irritant, like a drug habit. Marshall McLuhan technologymenart Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users. Marshall McLuhan biasproducetechnology Innovation is what America does best. Whether it is the Apollo Project to the moon, developing the most advanced defense technologies available, the rise of the Internet or the latest advancements in biomedical gene therapies, our nation leads the world in transformative innovations. Martin Heinrich technologymoonamerica Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the worst possible way when we regard it as something neutral; for this conception of it, to which today we particularly like to do homage, makes us utterly blind to the essence of technology. Martin Heidegger technologyessencetoday When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result. Marshall McLuhan anxietytechnologylong Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual. Marshall McLuhan stresstechnologymean The question concerning technology is the question concerning the constellation in which revealing and concealing, in which the coming to presence of truth, comes to pass Martin Heidegger constellationsrevealingtechnology The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action. Marshall McLuhan patternstechnologyaction The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer effects. Marshall McLuhan computerpoliticstechnology New techniques - often spinning out of technology and lack of privacy has resulted in new manipulative communication formats. Martin Lindstrom communicationtechnologytechnique The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control Martin Heidegger masterytechnologyhumans It is always the psychic and social grounds, brought into play by each medium or technology, that readjust the balance of the hemispheres and of human sensibilities into equilibrium with those grounds. Marshall McLuhan psychicstechnologyplay Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the essence of technology will open itself up to us. It is the realm of revealing, i.e., of truth Martin Heidegger technologyessencemean The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual threat has already affected man in his essence. The rule of Enframing threatens man with the possibility that it could be denied to him to enter into a more original revealing and hence to experience the call of a more primal truth Martin Heidegger technologyessencemen Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes. Marshall McLuhan forcetechnologythinking Scientists surely have a special responsibility. It is their ideas that form the basis of new technology. They should not be indifferent to the fruits of their ideas. They should forgo experiments that are risky or unethical. Martin Rees technologyresponsibilityideas Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology. Marshall McLuhan printtechnologymen«142143144145146147148149150151152»
