“Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a positive feedback cycle.” IfsUseTechnologySourceCyclesFeedbackLoopsPositive Feedback Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“Technology and Ideology are shaking the foundations of 21st century capitalism. Technology is making skills and knowledge the only sources of sustainable strategic advantage.” TechnologyCenturySourceSkillsCapitalismAdvantageFoundationIdeology21st CenturyShakingStrategicSkills And Knowledge Author:Lester Thurow
“Serious research and development efforts are required to produce technologies, strategies, organizations, and trained personnel who can go into failed states, work with our allies and friends, and promote the political and economic reforms that will meet popular needs and reduce the sources of terrorism and conflict.” NeedsStatesPoliticalEffortTechnologyEconomicProduceSeriousSourceDevelopmentConflictResearchOrganizationStrategyTerrorismReformAlliesPersonnelResearch And DevelopmentEconomic Reforms Author:Wesley Clark
“America has the highest standard of living of any major country in the entire world. To maintain and enhance that standard of living, America should continue to embrace those qualities which have made America great: openness and dynamism. Openness to new technologies, new ideas and new people is America's greatest source of strength.” PeopleWorldShouldMadeIdeasCountryAmericaQualityTechnologySourceMajorsHighestStandardsEmbraceOpennessNew IdeasNew TechnologyStandards Of LivingDynamismSource Of Strength Author:Alex Tabarrok
“The technologies for the alternative energy sources exists today. The economics are compelling. The public health is compelling. Why would we maintain a focus on a 17th-century technology, when there are 21st-century alternatives that are both necessary and available? And the answer is the subversion of democracy.” TodayEnergyAnswersTechnologyDemocracyFocusCenturySourceEconomicsAvailableAlternativesCompelling21st CenturyPublic HealthEnergy SourcesSubversion17th CenturyAlternative Energy Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television.” MindHomeAgeRoomsBreakTechnologyModernTelevisionSeriousSourceReaderCircumstancesComfortConversationOfficeTrainDefinitionsPlanesHotelMidstRebelMatesUsualIndividualismHammersHerdsRevoltStimulationHotel RoomsBoycottIrrelevance Author:Eric Burns
“Religion is (a) a pre-scientific system of explanation and technology; (b) a source of meaning, direction and emotional expression in life; (c) a means of social control; (d) a means of coping with uncertainty and death.” MeanSocialTechnologyEmotionalExpressionSourceUncertaintyExplanationCopingSocial ControlEmotional Expression Author:Max More
“Renewable energy also creates more jobs than other sources of energy - most of these will be created in the struggling manufacturing sector, which will pioneer the new energy future by investment that allows manufacturers to retool and adopt new technologies and methods.” JobsEnergyTechnologyStruggleSourceMethodInvestmentManufacturingPioneersNew TechnologyRenewable EnergyEnergy SourcesNew EnergyRenewable Energy Sources Author:Jay Inslee
“"The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and absurd, and nobody believes them anymore.” PeopleBelieveRunningTechnologySourceClaimsAbsurdIdeologyReplacedHollowIdeological Author:John Zerzan
“Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we're not. For me, it is really exciting to take the cutting edge technology and take it as far as it can get virtually, use it to describe/control the musicology or the behavior of raw natural elements, and then plug it with a sound source which is the most acoustic one there is - like gamelan and pipe organ. So you get the extremes: very virtual and very physical. In that way you shift the physicality.” WayUseSeemsSoundNaturalTechnologyCuttingSourceBehaviorElementsExcitingEdgesExtremesOur TimeOrgansPipeAcousticsPlugsPhysicalityCutting EdgeRedefiningNatural ElementsPipe Organs Author:Bjork
“It is worth noting that virtually every alternative energy source we have - solar, wind, nuclear, and battery and fuel cell technologies for storage - resulted from public innovation and R&D, not private. The problem is that we haven't done enough of it, and we have done it inconsistently.” DoneEnoughProblemEnergyTechnologyHavensWindSourceInnovationNuclearCellsAlternativesFuelBatteriesStorageEnergy SourcesAlternative EnergyFuel Cells Author:Ted Nordhaus
“I've always viewed the Paris Agreement as a starting point. If you look at all the commitments that have been made by all the countries, it's still not sufficient to deal with the very dangerous situation we face. What it has done is that it created an architecture whereby as technology improves, as we find new clean sources of energy, as we make our economies more efficient, then gradually we can turn up the dial and improve the outcomes of Paris.” IfsLooksHas BeensMadeStillsCountryDoneFacesTurnsEnergyDealsSituationTechnologyEconomyDangerousSourceCommitmentCleanStartingArchitectureParisOutcomesSufficientAgreementEfficientStarting PointDangerous Situations Author:Barack Obama
“Globalization combined with technology, combined with social media and constant information, have disrupted people's lives sometimes in very concrete ways; a manufacturing plant closes and suddenly an entire town no longer has what was the primary source of employment.” PeopleWaySometimesSocialTechnologyMediaInformationSourceTownsConstantPlantSocial MediaEmploymentPrimariesConcreteGlobalizationManufacturingPrimary Source Author:Barack Obama
“Yet now the industrialized world is moving away from fossil fuels and moving towards renewable sources of energy. And because we have not invested so much into education, we don't have the technology and sometimes we don't even have the capital to buy this technology.” WorldSometimesMovingEnergyTechnologySourceFuelFossilsFossil FuelMoving Away Author:Wangari Maathai
“Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.” WholeTogetherSocialProcessWealthTechnologySourceOriginalsProductionsVariousSoilCapitalistCombiningLabourersLabor And Capital Book:Marx's Capital Source: Marx's Capital