“My phone is trying to kill me. It is a battery-charged rectangle of disappointment and possibility. It is a technological pacifier.” TryingTechnologyPossibilityPhonesDisappointmentTechnologicalKill MeBatteriesRectanglesPacifiers Author:Amy Poehler
“Tad Homer-Dixon is a rare kind of public intellectual, who combines real expertise with a commitment to communicate to the widest possible readership. In The Ingenuity Gap he wants us all to wake-up to the fearful possibility that our blithe trust in science and technology may be misplaced. Human ingenuity may not be capable of coping with two emerging crises of this century and the next: population growth and environmental despoliation. Read Homer Dixon's wake-up call and you will see the future very differently.” WantHumansKindMayTwoRealNextGrowthTechnologyCenturyPossibilityCapableIntellectualCommitmentWake UpCrisisEnvironmentalPopulationCommunicateGapsFearfulWant UEmergingExpertiseCopingIngenuityScience And TechnologyMisplacedPopulation GrowthReadershipWake Up CallBlithe Author:Michael Ignatieff
“As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.” DreamTechnologySeeingPossibilityIncreaseShrinkingLag Author:Jason Silva
“Advances in technology have opened up possibilities in the cultural realm throughout history. I'm intrigued by developments in technology - as an artist it gives me a new palette to explore.” GivingArtistTechnologyPossibilityDevelopmentGive MeRealmsIntriguedPalette Author:Janet Echelman
“We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities.” TechnologyPossibilityToolsExpandingSymbiosis Author:Jason Silva
“Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.” FormTechnologyModernPossibilityBuildingCreatingSignificantUrban Author:Kenneth Frampton
“Small changes can magnifiy. The possibility of interpersonal communication has increased substantially with contemporary technology. But as compared with the major changes, which were long ago, these are not huge.” LongTechnologyPossibilityHugeCommunicationMajorsContemporaryLong AgoSmall ChangesInterpersonalMajor ChangeInterpersonal Communication Author:Noam Chomsky
“Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.” ThinkingMayMeanFormReadingBrainTechnologyPossibilityCommunicationHabitStructureAvailableOnlineCommunication Technology Author:Margaret Atwood
“The most likely possibility, favored by current data, is that the universe will die in Ice, not Fire. However, personally I believe that trillions of years from now, we (if we are still around) will have the technology to leave the universe, perhaps in an interdimensional life boat, and move to a warmer universe.” IfsYearsBelieveStillsMovingDiesUniverseI BelieveTechnologyFirePossibilityCurrentsBoatIceData Author:Michio Kaku
“The technology for a clothing printer exists but is not packaged in a form that would be suitable for consumer use. With the future potential of printing technology, an at-home clothing printer is a definite possibility. Our challenge was to define the experience.” UseHomeWould BeFormChallengesTechnologyPossibilityConsumersClothingsDefinitePrintingSuitablePrinter Author:Joshua Harris
“The use of electronics is a natural extension of the instrument - it is an electric guitar. So we guitarists have been plugging into something since 1931, and we are not about to stop now. Current advances in technology means we can have a huge array of sounds at our fingertips, and this offers amazing possibilities to the contemporary composer. It is always a guitar (I don't play synthesizer) but it becomes something else all together - more like sculpting sound in real time using metal wires, 5 fingers and a pick.” MeanHas BeensRealPlayUseTogetherSoundNaturalTechnologyPossibilityHugeOffersPicksInstrumentsFingersGuitarCurrentsContemporaryMetalsComposerElectricExtensionsWireGuitaristUsing MeFingertipsElectronicsElectric GuitarSculptingSynthesizers Author:Tim Brady
“It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may be totally different cultures using identical tools-but the tools settle the possibilities; you can't have interstellar trade without spaceships. A race limited to a single planet, possessing a high knowledge of mechanics but with its basic machines of industry and war requiring a large capital investment, will inevitably tend toward collectivism under one name or another. Free enterprise needs elbow room.” NeedsMayDifferentWarCultureNamesRoomsRaceTechnologyPossibilityPlanetsIndustryToolsMachinesAbsolutesTradeStructureInvestmentDeterminedSettlingEnterpriseMechanicIdenticalPossessingCollectivismElbowsSpaceshipsDifferent CulturesFree EnterpriseTruismInterstellarCapital Investment Book:Trader to the Stars: Polesotechnic League Source: Trader to the Stars: Polesotechnic League
“Whatever social network that comes along, whether it be Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, whatever it is, I'll use it in a creative sense to push the vision and explore the possibilities of the relationship between humans and technology.” HumansUseSocialVisionTechnologyCreativePossibilityInstagramSocial NetworkSnapchat Author:Kesh
“Holman's world is a worst case scenario but it's healthy to examine extreme possibilities. If the technology that is used for genetic enrichment in Genus had been distributed equitably, across society, it could have been nirvana, a great world where people don't fear the diseases that we die from. The problems that arrive are more to do with resource hording than technology itself.” PeopleIfsWorldHas BeensProblemUsedDiesCasesTechnologyWorstPossibilityHealthyDiseaseResourcesExtremesCould Have BeenScenariosEnrichmentWorst Case Scenario Author:Jonathan Trigell
“If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities.” IfsTechnologyPossibilityInternetFree SpeechDefiniteNew Technology Author:Tim Jackson
“Those are possibilities for technology, which don't tend to be used, because of the way power is concentrated. There are all kinds of possibilities, including for coercion. In China, technology is used to control and coerce. Here too, to an extent, but not to that extent.” WayKindUsedTechnologyPossibilityIncludingChinaAll KindsCoercionCoerce Author:Noam Chomsky
“Desktop publishing was a big innovation that meant small groups or even poor societies could do their own publication without the capital investment in a major printing press. That's a big difference. Same is true of more advanced technologies - it can offer plenty of liberatory possibilities - can - but whether it does or not or whether it serves for coercion depends on socioeconomic decisions.” DoeBigsDifferencesDecisionPoorTechnologyGroupsPossibilityDependsOffersMajorsInnovationPressesInvestmentPlentyPublishingCoercionPublicationPrintingSmall GroupsPrinting PressDesktopAdvanced TechnologyCapital InvestmentDesktop Publishing Author:Noam Chomsky
“I started playing with digital technology early on in my work. I made digital collages with costumed figures using early versions of Photoshop in the 90s. I was trying to use the newly available digital technologies to combine real people and places with new imagined possibilities.” PeopleTryingMadeRealUseTechnologyFiguresPossibilityAvailableVersionsDigitalCollagesPhotoshopDigital Technology Author:Saya Woolfalk
“The density of human population combined with the development of powerful and largely unconstrained technology has given us the problems of the anthropocene and the serious possibility of self-caused extinction.” HumansSelfProblemGivenPowerfulTechnologyPossibilitySeriousDevelopmentPopulationExtinctionDensityHuman Population Author:Dale Jamieson
“Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.” TechnologyDesignPossibilityIndustryAmbitiousNew Possibilities Author:Zaha Hadid
“To someone like Zurbaran, who paints still lifes, lemons and pears are the objects of art. But to the electronics engineer who works on the technologies of virtual reality, the whole reality has become the object of art, with a possibility to substitute the virtual with the real.” ArtStillsRealWholeRealityTechnologyPossibilityObjectsPaintSubstitutesEngineersLemonsVirtual RealityElectronicsStill LifePears Author:Paul Virilio
“Absorbing foreign capital and technology and even allowing foreigners to construct plants in China can only play a complementary role to our effort to develop the productive forces in a socialist society. Of course, this will bring some decadent capitalist influences into China. We are aware of this possibility; it's nothing to be afraid of.” PlayCoursesForceEffortRolesTechnologyInfluencePossibilityPlantChinaProductiveAllowingCapitalistSocialistConstructsForeignersAbsorbingComplementary Author:Deng Xiaoping
“The possibility of interpersonal communication has increased substantially with contemporary technology. But as compared with the major changes, which were long ago, these are not huge.” LongTechnologyPossibilityHugeCommunicationMajorsContemporaryLong AgoInterpersonalMajor ChangeInterpersonal Communication Author:Noam Chomsky
“I am a former engineer and I was really excited about the possibility of building better technology to serve humanity. A lot of us as engineers have this belief that if you build a tool you somehow can empower humans economically or socially. The idea of building a better technology often means more efficiency.” MeanHumanityBeliefTechnologyPossibilityBuildingExcitedEmpoweringEfficiency Author:Ramesh Srinivasan
“The only two countries who will be able to launch people into space will be Russia and China. I've seen the Russian technology up close and I've had a chance to look at some of the Chinese technology. It's a very high level. They have good hardware and what China lacks is operational experience. But as they gain more experience, as they fly more missions, they'll catch up quickly. The U.S. does face the possibility of losing the lead in human space flight during this period of what we call the gap.” PeopleCountryChanceTechnologyPossibilityLosingFlightChinese Author:Leroy Chiao
“I've been working in computer animation for 25 years. I'm obviously a devotee of the technology. I just think it's the one aspect of the medium that's going to continue to revolutionize the filmmaking. It's constantly changing and it's constantly opening up new possibilities. The technology is evolving where 2-D animation was ultimately limited by how long you could pay how many people to make a movie. I mean computers, not that it's in anyway a labor saving device, but it promises to open up exciting new technical possibilites.” PeopleThinkingMeanLongTechnologyPossibilityPromiseComputerLaborExcitingEvolveFilmmakingAnimation Author:Chris Wedge
“However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.” ScienceTechnologyImpossibleModernMankindPossibilityPositiveTaughtLessonsTechniqueFallenInherentModern ScienceImpossible ThingsNothing Is Impossible Author:Lewis Mumford
“We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.” WorldTechnologyPossibilityMarriedSorryTerrorismNew World Author:Condoleezza Rice