“Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.” SchoolAmericaTechnologyEconomyComfortStandardsScientistSafetyMilesCompromiseFuelVehicleEngineeringGallonsMitFuel Economy Author:Ed Markey
“Medicine today invests heavily in information technology, yet the promised improvement in patient safety and productivity frankly have not been realized.” TodayTechnologyInformationSafetyMedicinePatientProductivityImprovementInformation Technology Author:Peter Pronovost
“The Lexus LS 460 was designed to expand on the definition of the full-size luxury sedan as well as the level of innovative technology, especially as it relates to safety.” WellsLevelsTechnologySafetySizeDefinitionsLuxuryRelateInnovativeLexus Author:Robert M. Carter
“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
“A 2001 survey of business owners with MBAs conducted by the Rochester Institute of Technology found that money was the primary motivator for only 29% of women, versus 76% of men. Women prioritized flexibility, fulfillment, autonomy and safety.” MenFoundTechnologySafetyPrimariesFulfillmentOwnersVersusFlexibilityAutonomyMen WomenInstituteSurveysBusiness OwnersMbaRochester Author:Warren Farrell
“Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always triumph over random disaster if certain rules were followed. The engineers-turned-technocrats could not bring themselves to accept the psychology of machines with abandoning the core principle of their own faith: equations, geometry, and repetition-physical law, precision design, and testing-must defy chaos.” IfsBelieveLawCertainLostAcceptingPrinciplesTechnologyPsychologyDesignMachinesSafetyChaosCoreDisasterTriumphPropagandaAgencyAviationEngineeringEngineersRepetitionTestingEquationsGeometryPrecisionNasaHubris Book:This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age Source: This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age
“The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.” HumansForceImaginationTechnologyPlanetsSafetySurfaceUnleashedConjunctionsHuman Imagination Book:True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival Source: True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival
“The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.” PeopleWorldShouldTodayNationsTechnologyGenerationsScientistSafetyInstitutionsPlantNuclearAcademicElectricityFeedbackNuclear PowerUpdatesNuclear Plants Author:Abdul Kalam
“A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.” IfsPersonsMoneyCompanyTechnologySecurityCallingWasteComputerHundredSafetyDollarsTrustedAttackingHackersIntrusionDetectionEncryptionComplying Author:Kevin Mitnick
“When the safety of America is threatened, we will spend any amount of money. The real safety of our nation is preparing this next generation so that they can take our place [in] thinking and technology and democracy.” ThinkingRealAmericaNextNationsEducationTechnologyDemocracyGenerationsAmountSafetyEducationalPreparingThreatenedNext Generation Author:Geoffrey Canada
“People are concerned over safety and spillage, especially for the workers. Were all really hopeful even though we remain deeply concerned over the safety and the efficacy of an unproven technology.” PeopleTechnologyConcernedSafetyWorkersHopefulEfficacySpillage Author:Paul Walker
“There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.” Has BeensStillsTodayCertainChanceTechnologyFireCarHugeCircumstancesSafetyImpactHeavyCrash Author:Jackie Stewart
“New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us.” TechnologyNeededAchievementStandardsToolsSafetyTechniqueCanadaInnovativeGreat Achievement Author:Marc Garneau
“The Keystone XL project has built strong safety measures into its design with the newest technology. Additionally, 80 percent of the new Canadian oil sands are being developed 'in situ,' meaning, it has a similar carbon footprint and emissions as conventional oil wells.” WellsStrongTechnologyDesignProjectsPercentBuiltSafetyOilSandConventionalCarbonEmissionsFootprintKeystonesCarbon Footprint Author:John Hoeven