Quotes by Technology For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. Neil Gershenfeld smarttechnologyneeds Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science. Neil Gershenfeld computerworsttechnology Instead of using technology or wearing technology constantly, we will start becoming technology. Neil Harbisson becomingtechnology I don’t feel that I’m using technology. I don’t feel that I’m wearing technology. I feel that I am technology. Neil Harbisson technologyfeels Life will be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile phones and we start creating applications for our own body. Neil Harbisson technologymotivationinspiration Technology makes good DJ's better, but also allows your average person to think they're a DJ, and unfortunately there's no checks and balances about people making it a career. Neil Armstrong technologyaveragethinking I like the aspect of technology. For me to spin the way I do, I would have to carry five crates of records with me everywhere I go, which in this day and age would be like two hundred extra dollars in baggage fees. All I need now is a hard drive and a computer and I can rock anywhere in the world. Neil Armstrong rockstechnologytwo If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it. Neil Armstrong progresstechnologybelieve Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology. Neil deGrasse Tyson technologycommunityfighting My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer. Neil deGrasse Tyson technologyphilosophyscience Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and value certain perspectives and accomplishments and to subordinate others. Every technology has a philosophy, which is given expression in how the technology makes people use their minds, in how it codifies the world, in which of our senses it amplifies, in which of our emotional and intellectual tendencies it disregards. Neil Postman technologypowerfulphilosophy If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it. Neil Postman adultstechnologysound It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that. Neil Postman technologyblessingmistake But it is much later in the game now, and ignorance of the score is inexcusable. To be unaware that a technology comes equipped with a program for social change, to maintain that technology is neutral, to make the assumption that technology is always a friend to culture is, at this late hour, stupidity plain and simple. Neil Postman technologyignorancesimple The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn about us. Neil Postman technologyspiritualbrain Intelligent life can't be all that common because it's really rare on Earth and especially since we define ourselves to be intelligent. But in the eyes of an alien coming here who has the technology to make it here, they might observe us and conclude that there's no sign of intelligent life on Earth. Neil deGrasse Tyson technologyintelligenteye Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose. Neil Postman cleartechnologywinning I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects. Neil Postman technologytryingnegative The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable. Neil Postman unpredictableinevitabletechnology It is inescapable that every culture must negotiate with technology, whether it does so intelligently or not. A bargain is struck in which technology giveth and technology taketh away. Neil Postman technologydoeculture«158159160161162163164165166167168»
