“My goals over the decade include to develop new drugs to treat intractable diseases by using iPS cell technology and to conduct clinical trials using it on a few patients with Parkinson's diseases, diabetes or blood diseases.” GoalTechnologyBloodDrugDiseaseTreatsPatientDecadesTrialsCellsDiabetesClinicalsParkinsonParkinson'sClinical Trials Author:Shinya Yamanaka
“The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and drugs. The one great difference is that by now the revolution has deprived the mass of consumers of any independent access to the staples of life: clothing, shelter, food, even water. Air access remains the only necessity that the average user can still get for himself, and the revolution has imposed a heavy tax on that by way of pollution. Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.” WayKindStillsWaterDifferencesTechnologyEconomyAirMilitaryRevolutionDrugTaxesWeaponsMassIndependentRemainsTradeFinalsDefeatAverageHeavyAccessConsumersClothingsUsersPollutionShelterConsumerismConquestItemsDeprivedNoveltyFurThoroughOrnamentsOverconsumptionStaples Book:The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
“In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant usually proves a greater plague than the initial irritant, like a drug habit.” MenArtGivenTechnologyGreaterViolenceHabitDrugProveExperimentsPlagueInitialsPsychSpecificationsIrritants Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“A psychiatrist who professes to be a healer of souls, but who keeps people asleep, treats them for waking up, and drugs them asleep again (increasingly effectively as this field of technology sharpens its weapons), helps to drive them crazy.” PeopleSoulHelpingTechnologyCrazyFieldsDrugWeaponsTreatsWake UpWakingPsychiatristHealer Author:R. D. Laing
“Terrorists are linked to money laundering, dirty money, drug dealing, arms trafficking. We have to ask ourselves, where do terrorists get their weapons from? Where do they get their communication technology from? Where do they get their financing from? These are some of the aspects where I think the entire international community needs to come together and put a complete stop to access to these three key aspects by the terrorists.” ThinkingNeedsTogetherThreeAsksCommunityTechnologyCommunicationArmsKeysDrugWeaponsAspectInternationalAccessTerroristDirtyLinkedInternational CommunityFinancingTraffickingCommunication TechnologyMoney LaunderingDirty Money Author:Narendra Modi
“Back in the 1980s, when the internet was only available to a small number of pioneers, I was often confronted by people who feared that the strange technologies I was working on, like virtual reality, might unleash the demons of human nature. For instance, would people become addicted to virtual reality as if it were a drug? Would they become trapped in it, unable to escape back to the physical world where the rest of us live? Some of the questions were silly, and others were prescient.” PeopleIfsWorldHumansRealityMightNumbersTechnologyHuman NatureStrangeInternetDrugAvailableSillyInstanceDemonTrappedPioneersVirtual RealitySmall Numbers Author:Jaron Lanier
“Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.” WayRealSelfSpiritChoicesBeliefSidesHurtTechnologyProgressDangerousDrugShadowMachinesAccountsSafetyMedicineLifestyleExpensiveLazySophisticatedSelf RelianceRelianceSafety NetLifestyle ChoicesShadow Side Author:Andrew Weil
“Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have - whether it's something sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bednet.” RunningGoalTechnologyFourCuttingStageDrugApproachHighestSolutionsIdealsDetermineComplexityApplicationSophisticatedPredictable Author:Bill Gates
“These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.” PeopleMayChildrenMightAbleParentTechnologySupportGroupsInfluenceInformationBirthEasierDrugMedicalDefectsSupport GroupsBirth Defects Author:Steve Jobs
“All the drug dealers and gang members with whom I dealt had [a cell phone] long before any police officer I knew did.” LongInspirationMotivationTechnologyDrugMembersPolicePhonesCellsOfficersGangCell PhoneDealerPolice OfficerDrug DealersGang Members Author:Marc Goodman
“For the last century of neuroscience, lots of people have tried to control neurons using all sorts of different technologies - pharmacology (drugs), electrical pulses, and so on. But none of these technologies are precise. With optogenetics, we can aim light at a single cell, or a set of cells, and turn just that set of cells on or off.” PeopleDifferentLightLastsTurnsTechnologyCenturyDrugAimCellsPreciseNeurosciencePulseElectricalNeuronsPharmacology Author:Edward Boyden
“I don't think the criticism is fair. I think the criticism is assuming that Donald Trump giving up on something. He's not. I think if you do end up seeing - if you do end up seeing - some type of agreement regarding DACA and this massive-but-not-wall border security, talking about technology and people, all the things that we need to stop drugs and illegals from coming across the border. If that does become the framework for an agreement that does not mean the president's giving up on his priorities.” PeopleThinkingGivingMeanTechnologySecurityDrugGiving UpCriticismAssumingPriorities Author:Mick Mulvaney
“Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.” PeopleWayUnderstandingSimpleTechnologyCarDrugCapitalismRewardsCreatorValuableFirmMakersImaginativeGood FoodProvidersValuable Things Author:Geoff Mulgan