Fiecare nouă tehnologie impune dobândirea unui nou sistem de reflexe, care ne cere noi eforturi, și asta la răstimpuri din ce în ce mai scurte.
Jean-Claude CarrièreTag: time technology effort short reflexe
I was impressed by the scene in Apollo 13 where the astronauts request confirmation of their calculations and several people at Mission Control dive for their slide rules. For several months after that, my standard response to statements like "We must implement multi-processor object-oriented Java-based client-server technologies immediately!" was "You know, FORTRAN and slide rules put men on the moon and got them back safely multiple times."
Tended to shut them up, at least for a moment.
Tag: technology nasa fortran slide-rules
Interesting how fashion is cyclical,” Jaccob said when she came out of the store with two black plastic bags. “Goth was the look when I was young, too.”
“It’s not a look,” Chuck said. “I’m just wearing my feelings on the outside.”
“Uh huh.” His phone buzzed. “Hang on a second."
He rolled up his sleeve to check his HUD, but the call hadn’t come through there.
Huh. He had to pick up his phone and check the read-out, which listed a phone number: an old school page. “That’s funny…”
“Dad, you’re doing that thing again,” Chuck said.
“What thing?” Jaccob asked.
“That thing where you have to check every single doohickey you carry around.”
“I am not.” Jaccob took his hand out of his coat pocket, where he’d been reaching to check his police scanner or music player (he hadn’t decided which to use first).
Tag: humor family technology parenting superhero stardust
It can be argued that the computer is humanity’s attempt to replicate the human brain. This is perhaps an unattainable goal. However, unattainable goals often lead to outstanding accomplishment.
Ammaar Shaukat ReshiTag: humanity technology computers computer-science
Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
Vernor VingeTag: technology slavery slaves technocracy
As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred between them tends to decrease, for the simple reason that you can't kill someone and trade with him too.
Steven PinkerTag: peace economics technology
Just as war is too important to leave it to the generals, science and technology are too important to leave in the hands of the experts.
Sheldon RamptonTag: science democracy technology
Progress in science and technology is real, but it builds on past truths without rejecting them. Computers don’t have to be re-invented in order to keep getting better; innovations expand what they already do. Knowledge accumulates, so it can increase. Scientists and engineers know this, but artists, authors, and philosophers keep trying to start over from ground zero in the humanities. Thus, they don’t really progress—they become primitive.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.Tag: technology novelty relativism
She flipped through the pages of her apps, as if Apple made an app for "Escape from a deserted island.
Kimberly KinradeTag: humor technology
It’ll turn me into a weapon,’ I say, my voice suddenly loud.
‘All you got to do is curl your hands into fists and you turn into a weapon,’ says Jim. ‘Your body is just another tool. This technology changes nothing; it only amplifies. You decide how to use your tools. Whether to do good or evil.
Tag: technology human-nature weapons violence good-vs-evil
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