“For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.” WayLifeScienceThreeWomenQualityTechnologyFailurePleaseComputerMathematicsPressesListsImprovementQuality Of LifeScience And TechnologyComputer TechnologyScience TechnologyTechnology And Education Author:Alice Kahn
“Both instruments are processors of information. Both appeared when nothing quite like them had existed before, and both began to make their effects felt immediately (a situation that isn't invariable with new technology). Both devices were less the result of a single breakthrough than of an evolving set of technologies. Like the computer, the printing press had no one certain inventor; it was a technology whose time had come.” CertainFeltResultsSituationTechnologyEffectsInformationComputerInstrumentsPressesEvolveDevicesBreakthroughInventorPrintingNew TechnologyPrinting PressProcessors Book:The Universal Machine: Confessions of a Technological Optimist Source: The Universal Machine: Confessions of a Technological Optimist
“I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)” KnowsFirstsHalfComputerLatePressesDecadesReviewsLinuxColumnistsShoppers Author:Charles Stross
“I hope that if I ever disappear, people don't look for me based on the last websites I visited. Kind of an awkward press conference for my parents. Officer, do you have any leads? Well, based on Mr. Finnegan's computer entries, we think he was abducted by Sorority Sluts.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsLooksKindLastsParentComputerPressesDisappearOfficersAwkwardConferencesWebsiteEntryPress ConferencesSorority Author:Christian Finnegan
“The program I use is called MED Soundstudio. It's basically a column of numbers that relate to pitch, duration, the type of sound. If I want to play a chord, I have to press keys on a keyboard - like a computer keyboard, on my Amiga - that relate to sharps and flats, note by note.” IfsWantPlayUseSoundNumbersKeysTypeComputerProgramPressesNotesRelateFlatsChordsColumnsKeyboardsDurationMedsComputer Keyboards Author:Max Tundra
“Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since.” IdeasAgeTechnologyInformationComputerPressesMisleadPrintingPrinting PressComputer Technology Author:Neil Postman
“I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, 'If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we'll talk.' All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books. Books smell good. They look good. You can press it to your bosom. You can carry it in your pocket.” PeopleIfsWantGivingLooksSaidStillsBookThreeCan DoCompanyNiceInternetPaperComputerPressesSmellComparePocketsJacketsBosomsManuscripts Author:Ray Bradbury
“I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail. These two are my junk mail.” WantTwoFrontsComputerSittingPressesBlockMailButtonsJunkJunk Mail Book:Jellicoe Road Source: Jellicoe Road