Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man’s inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,—in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?
Nathaniel HawthorneTags: technology travel materialism possessions
منذ عهد آدم عليه السلام , وكل جيل يتعلم من آبائه فنون المهارات التي يحتاجها في هذه الحياة , ليعيش ويكسب منها إلا جيل الإنترنت الذي يعيش بيننا , فهم الذين يعلمون آبائهم المهارات وفنون التقنيات بل ويقنعونهم بجدواها
يوسف الحضيفTags: technology
Man has created technology. Technology has created man; what we are today. Electricity is our way of life. Without it many would perish.
O.J. RendchenTags: world people technology detection earth
E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.
Jeff BezosTags: manners politeness technology e-mail
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
Esther DysonTags: technology addiction internet idolatry
Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.
Ina May GaskinTags: nature technology birth maternity-care
These people were the first to master a new kind of late twentieth-century life. They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never disappointed.
J.G. BallardTags: technology science-fiction 20th-century
He had a notebook. He took notes in it. It was always useful. And them Sybil, gods bless her, had brought him this fifteen-function imp which did so many other things, although as far as he could see at least ten of its functions consisted of apologizing for its inefficiency in the other five.
Terry PratchettTags: technology
Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
Jules VerneTags: technology gratitude idolatry
What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.
Steve JobsTags: technology computer
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