Quotes by Technology In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world. Thomas A. Edison creatingtechnologywisdom What if we're wrong and there is no climate change? Well, by doing everything possible to address it, we will still use less water, stimulate new energy savings and, in time, money-saving technologies, enjoy cleaner air, and preserve more forests and trees and animals. Thomas Friedman technologyanimalwater Our marvelous new information technologies boost our power and opportunities for political engagement, but they can also disempower us by contributing to extreme political mobilization that sometimes overwhelms our institutions. These institutions were designed for rural societies operation at a tiny fraction of today's speed and with a citizenry vastly less capable that today's. It's unclear how they will change to adapt to the new reality, but change they must. Thomas Homer-Dixon technologyopportunityreality New information technologies-including email, the web, and computerized blast-faxes and phone calls-have fundamentally changed the landscape of political competition in modern democracies. They've done so in three ways: by dramatically boosting the access of individuals and special interests to politically potent information, by making it easier for such people to coordinate their activities and exert political power, and by greatly increasing the pace of events within our political systems. Thomas Homer-Dixon phonestechnologypeople The idea that human-transforming technology that mingles the dna of natural and synthetic beings and merges man with machines could somehow be used or even inspired by evil supernaturalism to foment destruction within the material world is for some people so exotic as to be inconceivable. Yet nothing should be more fundamentally clear, as students of Thomas Horn technologymenideas We are entering a hyperconnected world where every boss now has more access, cheap access to cheap labor, cheap genius, cheap robot, cheap software, and then this world averages over. There is only one answer to that, and that is to get everyone as close as possible to some form of post-secondary education, it could be vocational, it can be liberal arts, it can be science and technology. Thomas Friedman technologyaverageart It's easy to kind of say it's the elite that's putting you down. Well, it wasn't really the elite, technology will do that. Thomas Friedman technologykindeasy We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets. Thomas Friedman balancetechnologyfeet Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing. Thomas Huxley two-sidestechnologyscience Technology isn't fulfilling its promise of unlimited progress and solving every problem through technology. With the Enlightenment and its aftermath, there already was a general loss of confidence in the Western religions. Thomas Keating technologylosspromise Science and technology have been embarrassed by two world wars, many smaller ones, and the spread of weapons that could destroy humanity. As a result, there is some loss of confidence in the great achievements of technology. Thomas Keating technologylosswar Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well. Thomas Keating alternativeswork-outtechnology Focus on humanity, not on technology. Thomas Leuthard technologyfocushumanity Technology is being integrated into the shopping experience, just as it has been integrated into almost every aspect of our daily lives. People have access to information instantly, allowing them to be savvier and more informed than ever before. Thomas M. McGee daily-lifetechnologypeople Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it. Thomas Mann technologyculturepeople The illusion that mechanical progress means human improvement ... alienates us from our own being and our own reality. It is precisely because we are convinced that our life, as such, is better if we have a better car, a better TV set, better toothpaste, etc., that we condemn and destroy our own reality and the reality of our natural resources. Technology was made for man, not man for technology. In losing touch with being and thus with God, we have fallen into a senseless idolatry of production and consumption for their own sakes. Thomas Merton technologymenmean From wearable sensors to video game treatments, everyone seems to be looking to technology as the next wave of innovation for mental health care. Thomas R. Insel innovationtechnologygames Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner. Thomas Carlyle technologymenwar It is irrational to charge high prices for socially valuable innovations as this guarantees that they will be underutilized. It is much better to sell them at cost and then to reward the innovator in some other way. This is not always possible, because in some cases the value of an innovation is in the eye of the beholder; it's very difficult to value how much a new Madonna song is worth, for example. But in the case of medicines, green technologies and seeds in agriculture, such an alternative reward mechanism is fairly straightforward. Thomas Pogge technologyeyesong We have this highly irrational system of incentivizing innovation for clean and green technologies, where we allow the innovator to have a temporary monopoly and then mark up the price of the product or sell licenses at high prices to those who want to use the kind of product that the innovator has invented. This system is collectively irrational because many people, to avoid the inflated prices of still-patented cleaner and greener technologies, opt for some older technology that is much more polluting. Thomas Pogge innovationtechnologypeople«214215216217218219220221222223224»
