“People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.” PeopleThinkingWantBelieveHas BeensTechnologyProgressBrokenAreasArtificial IntelligenceArtificialRoboticsNanotechnology Author:Peter Thiel
“... life is broken down into these stages: you're born and you don't know how anything works; gradually you find out how everything works; technology evolves and slowly there are a few things you can't work; at the end, you don't know how anything works.” KnowsEndsLife IsBornTechnologyKnow HowStageBrokenEvolveBroken Down Book:I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething Source: I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething
“When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community and often the community socially is broken.” WorldWayCommunityTechnologyDesignBrokenEconomicsBurdenDesignerCrushMaintenanceOld World Author:Cameron Sinclair
“I didn't view my body as broken, I reasoned that a human being can never be broken. Technology is broken. Technology is inadequate.” HumansBodyHuman BeingsViewsTechnologyBrokenInadequate Author:Hugh Herr
“Definitions get you into that time trap, and I'm very much more process-focused. Take Lucy, for example. Lucy is famous largely because she has almost a total skeleton. The more sophisticated we get with instruments, the more we can find out. Through CT scans of her skeleton, they now think she died falling out of a tree because of the way her bones are broken. If nineteenth and twentieth century technologies can retroactively transform our bodiment, what then do the technologies we now use do?” ThinkingFallTechnologyTreeBrokenBonesSophisticated Author:Don Ihde