“I have traveled many times outside Iran, and have discussed the issue [of the Iranian nuclear project]. I have been asked for my opinion and that of the Iranian Jewish community, and I have always emphasized that the Iranian people has the right to obtain nuclear technology and energy for peaceful purposes. The Iranian people must not give up this right under any circumstances - and indeed, it will not.” PeopleGivingHas BeensPurposeEnergyCommunityOpinionTechnologyIssuesCircumstancesGiving UpProjectsNuclearPeacefulIranTraveledNot Giving UpIranianJewish CommunityNuclear Technology Author:Maurice Motamed
“Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of the industrial firm. Technological compulsions, and not ideology or political will, will require the firm to seek the help and protection of the state.” MayStatesHelpingProblemPoliticalPoliticsTechnologyHigherCircumstancesProtectionPlanningIdeologyFirmManifestationTechnologicalCompulsionPolitical Will Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television.” MindHomeAgeRoomsBreakTechnologyModernTelevisionSeriousSourceReaderCircumstancesComfortConversationOfficeTrainDefinitionsPlanesHotelMidstRebelMatesUsualIndividualismHammersHerdsRevoltStimulationHotel RoomsBoycottIrrelevance Author:Eric Burns
“The bizarre thing about the anthropocene is that never has humanity been more powerful and never have individual humans felt so powerless. This is because so much that drives the circumstances of the anthropocene is the aggregation of apparently negligible acts, often amplified by technology, rather than decisive acts by autonomous decision-makers.” HumansHumanityIndividualFeltDecisionPowerfulTechnologyCircumstancesMakersPowerlessBizarreAutonomousDecision Makers Author:Dale Jamieson
“Part of why history is so important in my life is because it brings you an awareness that everything isn't new. It gives context to what's happening right now. History is cyclical but circumstances and technology change. So when social justice topics come up, they're not new. They're just being covered more. We have more ways to record it now.” GivingImportantJusticeTechnologyAwarenessCircumstancesSocial Justice Author:Yara Shahidi
“Technology allows us to weed out a lot of the extraneous circumstances that can happen in certain environments. If you have an opportunity to say, "I'm going to be in charge of my own narrative. I'm going to be the one who sees that this is OK for me," like anything else, it just gives you a position of feeling like you can be in charge of those things.” GivingFeelingsOpportunityTechnologyEnvironmentLike YouCircumstancesWeed Author:Kate Hudson
“There might be greater technology but really, we as human beings, we're the same as we ever were. There's always a ruling class that shits on a working class. There's always war over money. So we as humans aren't enlightened as a whole. So I think that you as an individual can progress under certain circumstances, so if you choose to be something and to try and learn and to try and progress then eventually it will happen but that is also who you are. You can make conscious decisions to try and do something positive or constructive but you are what you are.” ThinkingTryingWarIndividualDecisionTechnologyProgressCircumstancesConsciousWho You AreEnlightenedYou ChooseWorking Class Author:David W. Marsden
“To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it.” PeopleThinkingMenWayYearsMatterFactsLightUsedMillionsTechnologyWiseCircumstancesConceptsDiscoveryConcernedIndiaPhilosopherAriseApplicationTechnologicalRelativityAstonishmentNew DiscoveriesLight Years Author:Alan Watts