“With all our new technologies, I feel like these feelings have really been dampened. Even if you are thousands of kilometers from somebody, you can still video chat with them on your cellphone. Even though we can see each other more on the internet, maybe our hearts becomes more distant.” IfsFeelsHeartStillsFeelingsTechnologyInternetVideoNew TechnologyCellphone Author:Jia Zhangke
“I'm not really satisfied with the technology today. Using film was so much easier than the digital technology of today. But digital is still at the beginning of what it can be and they'll be fixing all those problems.” StillsProblemTodayFilmTechnologyEasierSatisfiedDigitalFixingDigital Technology Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.” HumansWellsReasonTechnologyOffersWork OutAlternativesScience And TechnologyHuman Reason Author:Thomas Keating
“Science and technology have been embarrassed by two world wars, many smaller ones, and the spread of weapons that could destroy humanity. As a result, there is some loss of confidence in the great achievements of technology.” WorldHas BeensTwoWarHumanityLossResultsTechnologyAchievementWeaponsSpreadWar Of The WorldsEmbarrassedScience And TechnologyTwo WorldsGreat Achievement Author:Thomas Keating
“Technology isn't fulfilling its promise of unlimited progress and solving every problem through technology. With the Enlightenment and its aftermath, there already was a general loss of confidence in the Western religions.” ProblemLossTechnologyProgressPromiseEnlightenmentWesternFulfillingUnlimitedAftermath Author:Thomas Keating
“I don't know the technology of digital cameras but apparently the shutter speed is so fast, and so high a resolution, that they are capturing these orbs whenever people are bringing in a lot of angel energy. They just want us to know that they have got our backs, that we're not alone there, that our prayers are heard, and they are helping us.” PeopleKnowsWantHelpingEnergyPrayerTechnologyHeardAngelCamerasSpeedDigitalResolutionWant UNot AloneOur PrayersShuttersOrbsDigital Cameras Author:Doreen Virtue
“Maybe there's a sense that technology isn't necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically alienated world - a world where desires and feelings that normally are trapped inside your mind are made real in the form of magic.” WorldMindMadeRealFeelingsProblemFormDesireAnswersTechnologyFantasyMagicReaderOffersTrapped Author:Lev Grossman
“What's great is we actually have friends who belong or have previously belonged to the Amish community, so we got first hand stories and I was able to talk with them about visitors and visiting the Amish country. It was very enlightening to think this is very much going on as we speak. What was really interesting was that the upcoming Amish generation is actually closer to average American teenager in their use of the English language because of the use of technology.” ThinkingFirstsCountryStoriesUseHandsAbleSpeakLanguageCommunityInterestingTechnologyGenerationsAverageTeenagerEnglish LanguageEnlighteningReally InterestingVisitingVisitorsAmishUse Of Technology Author:Alyson Stoner
“I think he [Heidegger] sets the question up in a useful way and, despite appearances, he's not 'against' technology. He just wants us to have a questioning and thoughtful relation to it. This must be relevant to any approach.” ThinkingWayWantTechnologyApproachRelationAppearanceDespiteThoughtfulRelevantQuestioningWant UHeidegger Author:George Pattison
“As you're implying, there's a new technology that can look even deeper into that brick and we can start getting into a level where it breaks down so that the brick isn't even there, but obviously it is because Moe can hit Curly on the head with it. It's quite bizarre and all relative.” LooksLevelsBreakTechnologyDeeperRelativeBizarreBreaking DownBricksNew TechnologyImplying Author:Brad Warner
“When we first started Fear factory, we asked ourselves what Fear Factory means, it was a cool name, but what did it mean? We obviously embraced the technological side of a factory, as a factory can be anything from something that insights fear, like a government machine, to something of futuristic technology, or it could be religion. So we embraced the technological side of it back in the early days.” FirstsMeanGovernmentNamesSidesTechnologyMachinesInsightFactoriesTechnologicalFuturistic Author:Dino Cazares
“The romantics were reacting against a modern culture that divided individuals from themselves (through specialisation in the division of labor), from others (the competitive market place) and from nature, which had been reduced down to a machine through technology. The antidote to such division is unity and wholeness, which means feeling at home again in the world.” WorldMeanFeelingsHomeCultureIndividualTechnologyModernLaborMachinesUnityDivisionDividedWholenessAntidoteReactingModern CultureDivision Of Labor Author:Frederick C. Beiser
“You know, this technology that we have, and the Internet and Twitter and Facebook - I get so many of those emails that talk about hard times that kids have gone through, how books have helped them, but also happy times.” KnowsBookHardKidsTechnologyGoneInternetHard TimesEmailHappy TimesTwitter And Facebook Author:Lauren Myracle
“The institutions are working better now, the banks are much more functional. At this time, 1997, there were no mobile phones! It's a whole different thing now with mobile phones: technology has created a form of regulation, because people can actually talk to each other a lot more.” PeopleDifferentWholeFormTechnologyInstitutionsPhonesDifferent ThingsRegulationMobileMobile PhonesBetter Now Author:Rem Koolhaas
“Virtual Reality is going to be an important technology. I am pretty confident about this.” ImportantRealityTechnologyVirtual RealityI Am Pretty Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“I think people tend to be worried about every new technology that comes along.” PeopleThinkingTechnologyWorriedNew Technology Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“Critics worry that if we spend time paying attention to that new kind of media or technology instead of talking to each other that that is somehow isolating. But humans are fundamentally social. So I think in reality, if a technology doesn't actually help us socially understand each other better, it isn't going to catch on and succeed.” IfsThinkingHumansKindHelpingRealitySocialAttentionTalkingTechnologyWorryMediaSucceedCriticsPay AttentionEnd TimesSpend Time Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“Those citizens are distracted by the toys technology has supplied, and fail to recognize the ways in which what they most deeply want is made vulnerable by the coming disruptions of human relations on an over-heated planet.” WayWantHumansMadeTechnologyFailingPlanetsCitizensRelationVulnerableToysDistractedHuman RelationsDisruption Author:Philip Kitcher
“I debated whether or not to pin the setting down to a particular date but in the end I decided to leave things vague. It depends how fast technology improves.” EndsTechnologyParticularDependsDecidedSettingSettingsVaguePins Author:Jonathan Trigell
“New technologies are a good thing but we must consider how they will impact on us so that, when they become achievable, they aren't allowed to run amok.” RunningTechnologyImpactGood ThingsNew Technology Author:Jonathan Trigell
“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
“The idea of the archetypal nerd is totally blurred these days. So many people of this current generation have grown up with technology and video games. It's just a part of the world now, a part of our shared culture.” PeopleWorldIdeasCultureGamesTechnologyGenerationsCurrentsVideoThese DaysNerdCurrent Generation Author:Chris Hardwick
“When I was in school, if you wanted a computer, you had to build one. But today, computers are everywhere. We're all obsessed with technology and having the latest gadgets. Nerd culture is ubiquitous.” IfsTodayWantedSchoolCultureTechnologyComputerObsessedNerdGadgets Author:Chris Hardwick
“If you look at the banking business over many years, it's always been a huge user of technology. This has been going on my whole life, that people have been adding technology, digitizing services.” PeopleIfsYearsLooksHas BeensWholeTechnologyHugeWhole LifeUsersBanking Author:Jamie Dimon
“We use technology to make it cheaper, better, and faster for the client. And then if you have the most flow, you can win. Now, having said that, Silicon Valley wants to take on this business. They think they see an opening.” IfsThinkingWantSaidUseWinningTechnologyFlowOpeningFasterValleysClientsCheaperSiliconSilicon ValleyYou Can Win Author:Jamie Dimon
“They have a policy in China for their big companies called "Go abroad." It's a rational thing for both the company and the country to say, "We want big, successful companies." Particularly in areas where they need it: agriculture, energy, technology. I think banking, too. One or two have bought a trading house. Some have already begun expanding around the world. Of course they're going to have those ambitions. Why wouldn't they? They're just doing it methodically. It's a logical strategy and, well-executed, they will succeed.” ThinkingWorldWantNeedsWellsTwoCountryBigsCoursesHouseEnergyCompanyTechnologySuccessfulPolicySucceedAmbitionAreasStrategyChinaRationalAround The WorldLogicalAgricultureTradingBankingExpandingBig CompaniesSuccessful Company Author:Jamie Dimon
“The distraction, particularly of technology, impedes the innovative process. And when you add to that the distraction of working with colleagues who are in different time zones and/or who have a different approach to urgency and distraction, the potential for losing focus is abundant.” DifferentProcessTechnologyFocusApproachLosingAddZoneDistractionColleaguesInnovativeUrgencyDifferent TimesDifferent ApproachTime ZonesLosing Focus Author:David Livermore
“I think I've tried to stay true to my music since the beginning. It's kind of hard because of the access and technology but I just do what I do.” ThinkingKindHardTechnologyAccessStay True Author:Brian McKnight
“There are dangers, but only dangers if people don't understand where technology is taking us.” PeopleIfsTechnologyDanger Author:Michio Kaku
“You have the mainstream bourgeois life of the U.S., Europe, the "developed" world - the life of technology, education, mortgages, careers, a certain level of physical comfort - while on the other hand, several billion people on the planet exist on less than a dollar a day. That's a huge and terrible reality to get your head around.” PeopleWorldHandsRealityCertainLevelsCareersTechnologyPlanetsHugeTerribleComfortEuropeDollarsBillionsMainstreamMortgageBourgeoisTechnology In Education Author:Ben Fountain
“Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things.” IfsTechnologyPoetExcitingRescueExciting Things Author:Stephen Vincent Benet
“It's to a younger people's advantage to work with evolving computer technologies that provide so many ways to explore the use and distribution of text, including sound, images and motion.” PeopleWayUseSoundTechnologyComputerAdvantageIncludingEvolveDistributionComputer Technology Author:Stephen Vincent Benet
“I didn't want to make a record that was just guitar and voice, that was just the technology available to me. At the time, I remember thinking, "I am making a Faust album." That didn't translate.” ThinkingWantRememberVoiceTechnologyRecordsGuitarAlbumsAvailableTranslateFaust Author:Devendra Banhart
“In the earlier part of the 90s, I was really hell-bent on discovering how new technology works and how to make records entirely without a producer, which isn't necessarily what fans wanted. But I had to do it because I felt it was in my destiny or whatever.” WantedFeltDestinyTechnologyHellRecordsFansProducersDiscoveringBentNew TechnologyMy Destiny Author:Johnny Marr
“We have all the technology to record things in the streets. Now the historians cannot twist it or change it, because we have cellular phones or video cameras, and we are filming in the streets what's going on. We have the voices of everybody recorded. There's too much recording and I think that's wonderful.” ThinkingVoiceTechnologyRecordsToo MuchWonderfulStreetsCamerasPhonesVideoHistorianTwistsCellularVideo CamerasCellular Phones Author:Isabel Allende
“What intrigued me most was not the technology as such but the questions about the human goods, the fundamental human values and virtues that are raised by debates over biotechnology.” HumansValuesTechnologyVirtueFundamentalsRaisedDebateGoodsIntriguedHuman ValuesBiotechnology Author:Michael Sandel
“I think people who want to use genetic technologies to gain a competitive edge for their children are engaging in a kind of overreaching that could really undermine our appreciation of children as gifts for which we should be grateful and, instead, to view them as products or instruments that are there to be molded and directed.” PeopleThinkingWantShouldKindChildrenUseViewsTechnologyProductsGainsInstrumentsGratefulEdgesAppreciationBe GratefulEngagingOverreaching Author:Michael Sandel
“If there is a central theme to what I called "a peaceful warrior's approach to living," and to The Four Purposes of Life, it is that there may be innumerable techniques or methods one can learn (from the Eastern spiritual cultures and from the Western psychological tradition), but that above and beyond all these technologies waits the school of everyday life.” IfsMaySchoolSpiritualPurposeCultureWaitingTechnologyFourApproachTraditionMethodWesternEverydayTechniquePsychologicalPeacefulWarriorThemePurpose Of LifeEveryday LifeEasternAbove And BeyondPeaceful Warrior Author:Dan Millman
“Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.” TechnologyGuitarElectricAvoidedAcousticsElectric Guitar Author:Beck
“What if instead of seeing a neighborhood that reminds you of the place you grew up in, you see your actual neighborhood? The data exists. The technology exists. It's just a matter of sourcing it and processing it in a compelling fashion.” IfsMatterTechnologySeeingFashionGrewGrew UpDataNeighborhoodWhat IfCompellingProcessing Author:Chris Milk
“You read about that Black Lips/Wavves fight as a spectator and you're like, "Oh man, I'm gonna pick a team to be on! I'm gonna put my two cents in as my status update on my Facebook page" or something. Not to sound like an anti-technology person, but it's just a real drag that people live their lives that way.” PeopleMenWayPersonsTwoRealFightingSoundBlackTechnologyTeamPagesPicksLipsDragCentsSpectatorsUpdatesFacebook PageTwo CentsStatus Updates Author:Bradford Cox
“Whitney proved to be a competent manufacturer, but wasn't an original inventor to any important degree. Thomas Blanchard was a true genius: his stock making machine was the daddy of all the industrial profiling machinery, like the 1870s universal milling machine, that was the especial American contribution to machining technology. By that time, the British conceded that machinery innovation had shifted to America.” ImportantAmericaTechnologyGeniusDegreesMachinesUniversalInnovationOriginalsBritishContributionDaddyMachineryInventorCompetentWhitneyConcededTrue Genius Author:Charles R. Morris
“No specific technology. My guess is that it was the instinct always to go to maximum scale. Great Britain kept much more of a small shop mindset well into the twentieth century, for instance.” WellsTechnologyCenturyInstinctMindsetScalesInstanceBritainShopsMaximumTwentieth CenturyGreat Britain Author:Charles R. Morris
“When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.” UseTechnologyModernToolsDevicesTerritory Author:Beck
“Trying to use all the existing technologies that were out there wouldn't work for us because none of them were flexible. Everything was rigid in some way, so we had to go on a manhunt, essentially for something that was a viable technology. So it was a good four-months of just designing and figuring out the lights.” WayTryingUseLightTechnologyFourDesignMonthsGoes OnFlexible Author:Christine Bieselin Clark
“Everybody dreams, but memory for dreams is famously elusive. Even Sigmund Freud, without the benefit of modern technology's electroencephalogram, or EEG, did not know that adult humans dream 90 minutes per night, and that newborns spend eight hours per day dreaming (out of their 16 hours of sleep). REM sleep helps grow the brain!” KnowsHumansHelpingDreamNightGrowsHoursMemoriesSleepBrainTechnologyModernMinutesBenefitsAdultsEightElusiveModern Technology Author:Charles McPhee
“Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with the right science and the right technology.” WayTermPowerfulTechnologySkyLimitsAccomplishSky Is The Limit Author:Ramez Naam
“You have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits. When you look at the companies that have really won customers over in technology - say, Apple and Google - you find that they spend billions of dollars on R&D each year, often spending that much on a product before they ever make a dime back in profits.” YearsLooksCompanyTechnologyWillingProductsBenefitsDollarsProfitCustomersSpendingBillionsAwfulApplesPhasesGoogleDimes Author:Ramez Naam
“Unfortunately, in the environment, I don't see as much willingness to invest heavily in R&D as I do in consumer technology. And that's a pity.” TechnologyEnvironmentPityConsumersWillingness Author:Ramez Naam
“New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising consumption (as we end poverty) and environmental and natural resource depletion.” WayEndsGrowsNaturalPovertyTechnologyResourcesEnvironmentalRisingConsumptionPieNatural ResourcesNew TechnologyResource Depletion Author:Ramez Naam