“Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.” ChallengesPracticeTechnologyTrendsEnforcementMarketplaceAntitrust Author:Al Franken
“Buddhist monks have known for centuries that meditation can change the mind. Now we are inspired by His Holiness to examine with our technology the precise brain changes that occur with practice... The unique collaboration on meditation is just beginning.” MindBrainKnownPracticeTechnologyMeditationCenturyUniqueInspiredBuddhistHolinessCollaborationPreciseMonkBuddhist Monk Author:Richard Davidson
“Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains.” PeopleThinkingDoeLeftCommonBrainPracticeTechnologyPromiseCivilizationIntelligentContraryRelyAdvanced Technology Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“Attention is the most powerful tool of the human spirit. We can enhance or augment our attention with practices like meditation and exercise, diffuse it with technologies like email and Blackberries, or alter it with pharmaceuticals. In the end, though, we are fully responsible for how we choose to use this extraordinary tool.” HumansEndsUseSpiritPowerfulAttentionPracticeTechnologyFocusMeditationExerciseToolsResponsibleExtraordinaryMost PowerfulEmailHuman SpiritBlackberries Author:Linda Stone
“While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science, engineering and management are leading to new paradigms for high-technology innovation in both Japan and the United States.” ImportantStatesPoliticalDifferencesUnitedPracticeTechnologyUnited StatesPolicyInnovationManagementFactorsExplanationJapanTrendsEngineeringParadigmHigh Technology Book:Japanese innovation strategy: technical support for business visions Source: Japanese innovation strategy: technical support for business visions
“I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning.” ThinkingBelieveI BelievePracticeTechnologyEducationalEducational Technology Author:Mitchel Resnick
“We can change our thinking. Rather than viewing the chemical adulteration of our environment and our bodies as the inevitable practice of convenience and progress, we can decide that cancer is inconvenient and toxic pollution archaic and primitive. We can start seeing the creation of carcinogens as the result of outmoded technologies. We can demand green engineering and green chemistry. We can let our systems of industry and agriculture know that they are suffering from a design flaw.” ThinkingKnowsBodySufferingResultsPracticeTechnologyEnvironmentProgressSeeingDesignCreationIndustryDemandGreenEnvironmentalCancerInevitableFlawsChemistryChemicalsToxicEngineeringPollutionPrimitiveAgricultureConvenienceOur EnvironmentInconvenient Author:Sandra Steingraber
“To argue that we need some technology in order to produce food to tackle hunger is completely blind to the facts on the ground. Actually, what we need is the exact opposite of what GMOs give us. We have to empower farmers to grow food for themselves and plant and grow their own seeds and use practices to deal with weeds and the need for fertility, not from purchased products like a seed or a chemical, but from their own farms, from their own knowledge and skill sets.” NeedsGivingFactsUseOrderGrowsDealsPracticeTechnologyProduceProductsSkillsOppositesBlindPlantHungerSeedsArguingEmpoweringWeedFarmsChemicalsFarmersFertilityGmos Author:Anna Lappe
“Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.” PracticeTechnologyTheorySmartPreservesRevolutionaryStatus QuoReactionariesDisruptive Author:Evgeny Morozov
“There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.” DifferencesPracticeTechnologyHistorical Author:Bill Gates