“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 goal of science is to understand the fundamental reality and the goal of technology is to change that reality.” RealityGoalTechnologyFundamentals Author:Kedar Joshi
“Full employment is a socially hazardous goal. In effect, it aspires to restore through political expedients the pre-industrial state of toil that science, engineering, technology and modern management are pledged to overcome.” StatesWisdomPoliticalPoliticsGoalTechnologyEconomyModernEffectsOvercomingManagementEmploymentLiberalismEngineeringAspireToil Book:Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals Source: Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals
“I recognize the need for technology that enriches life while preserving our natural environment. My goal is to stimulate productivity, but use technology to redeem, not to destroy our environment.” NeedsUseGoalNaturalTechnologyEnvironmentProductivityOur EnvironmentNatural Environment Author:Gerald R. Ford
“Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.” IfsWantUseGoalActingBehindsTechnologyPathClearCreationIntellectualLaysPropertyContraryVehicleElectricCompellingMotorTransportPatentsAdventInitiateAccelerateIntellectual PropertyLawsuitGood FaithTeslaLandminesElectric Vehicles Author:Elon Musk
“If your goal is to make the world a better place, one thing you can do is pick a specific challenge that you really care about. Then, learn as much as you can about it and try to volunteer your time to help an organization that is working in this area. While you're doing that, look for creative new ways to use technology to tackle parts of the problem that you come in contact with.” IfsWorldWayTryingLooksHelpingUseProblemCareGoalCan DoChallengesTechnologyCreativeOne ThingPicksAreasOrganizationContactNew WaysVolunteerBetter Place Author:Bill Gates
“To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.” MeanEndsGovernmentSocialGoalJusticeTechnologyDemocracyAchieveStrongerAimSocial JusticeMeans To An End Author:Beth Simone Noveck
“Futurologists have been multiplying like flies since the day Herman Kahn made Cassandra's profession "scientific," yet somehow not one of them has come out with the clear statement that we have wholly abandoned ourselves to the mercy of technological progress. The roles are now reversed: humanity becomes, for technology, a means, an instrument for achieving a goal unknown and unknowable.” MeanHas BeensMadeHumanityGoalRolesTechnologyClearProgressAchieveMercyInstrumentsProfessionStatementsAbandonedTechnologicalMultiplyingTechnological Progress Author:Stanislaw Lem
“Setting an aggressive enough carbon-reduction goal will result in an appropriate price for carbon and will help many a renewable technology. Consumer education will help. Most importantly, though, will be the continually declining cost trajectory of the real breakthrough in clean-technology costs driven by research and innovation. In the end, private capital is the real barometer of change.” RealEndsEnoughHelpingGoalResultsTechnologyCostResearchInnovationCleanDrivenSettingSettingsConsumersAppropriateAggressiveCarbonBreakthroughReductionTrajectoryBarometerResearch And Innovation Author:Vinod Khosla
“My goal is to try to tell the public that America could use more science and technology in all aspects of its life.” TryingUseAmericaGoalTechnologyAspectScience And Technology Author:Zoltan Istvan
“My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.” GoalTechnologyInvisibleTechnologicalMediation Author:Richard Powers
“Our obsession is how we can use technology to reach our big goals, first peace, which will allow us more equality and better education.” FirstsUseBigsPeaceGoalEducationTechnologyObsession Author:Juan Manuel Marquez
“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