“If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice as much food per acre around the world. How do you do that? New technology.” IfsWorldWantNeedsAbleGrowsTechnologyPlanetsForestsAround The WorldNew TechnologyAcres Author:Ramez Naam
“In the food case in particular, one of the technologies that could help there - genetic technologies that could create better crops with higher yields and less need for water and fertilizer - is tremendously feared. Very little of that fear is scientifically grounded.” NeedsLittlesHelpingWaterCasesTechnologyParticularHigherYieldGroundedCropsFertilizer Author:Ramez Naam
“Often we need to use policy to level the playing field, or to be sure that a technology is managed in a responsible way.” WayNeedsUseLevelsTechnologyPolicyFieldsResponsiblePlaying Fields Author:Ramez Naam
“I was much more of a naïve techno-optimist than I am now. I still believe that technology can help us come out of this situation with a richer humanity with less impact on the planet, but now I think it has to be paired with effective policy in order to achieve that.” ThinkingBelieveStillsHelpingHumanityOrderSituationTechnologyAchievePolicyPlanetsImpactOptimistI Still BelieveTechno Author:Ramez Naam
“Everything today is "transient." Technology and its ability to empower actors large and small evolve so quickly that we have to get used to living in a world that exists in a more or less constant state of flux.” WorldStatesTodayUsedActorsAbilityTechnologyConstantEvolveEmpoweringTransientFlux Author:Ian Bremmer
“Today, a group of 20 individuals empowered by the exponential growing technologies of AI and robotics and computers and networks and eventually nanotechnology can do what only nation states could have done before.” StatesDoneTodayIndividualNationsCan DoTechnologyGrowingGroupsComputerEmpoweredRoboticsNanotechnology Author:Peter Diamandis
“You've got to choose your horse ahead of time. So, if you're interested in water technology, energy technology, you get to choose between the three or four companies that you have insight into. And you have to make a bet on them before they prove anything out.” IfsThreeEnergyWaterCompanyTechnologyFourProveHorseInsightAhead Of Time Author:Peter Diamandis
“I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of everywhere.” TryingBitsTechnologyPaintingAnimationBelgiansJapanese Animation Author:Guido Palau
“Diverse groups of countries can do a lot by trading amongst themselves, exploiting differences in costs, resources, and technologies.” CountryCan DoDifferencesTechnologyGroupsCostResourcesDiverseTrading Author:Daniel Altman
“I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think.” IfsThinkingWayHumansLooksHuman BeingsTechnologyInfluenceIntellectual Author:Nicholas G. Carr
“What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.” DoeBookTechnologyDistractionShields Author:Nicholas G. Carr
“The Internet, like all intellectual technologies has a trade off. As we train our brains to use it, as we adapt to the environment of the internet, which is an environment of kind of constant immersion and information and constant distractions, interruptions, juggling lots of messages, lots of bits of information.” KindUseBitsBrainTechnologyEnvironmentInformationInternetMessagesIntellectualTradeConstantTrainDistractionInterruptionsJugglingImmersionTrade Offs Author:Nicholas G. Carr
“People went to bed when the sun went down and they woke up when the sun came up. That's what our bodies are naturally programmed to do. However, with all the new stresses in life with electricity, with technology, we tend to override that system and we'll stay up later and we'll get up earlier or later, and we use alarm clocks, we use the light.” PeopleUseBodyLightTechnologySunBedStressDown AndGet UpClockElectricityAlarmsAlarm Clocks Author:Shelby Harris
“You have this really powerful technological infrastructure that can do really tremendous things. At the same time, it's never going to be as flexible as we'd like it to be. Just by nature of web technology.” Can DoPowerfulTechnologyTechnologicalFlexibleInfrastructureReally Powerful Author:Khoi Vinh
“I think the way design was practiced for most of the 20th century was very declarative. A designer came up with a solution for a project and put it in place and shipped the solution and it landed in a reader or a customer's hands as a brochure. They would see it as a poster, or as a piece of signage. And that was sort of it. That was the end of it. I think Internet technology has really upended that whole equation because in some ways a designer's work is never really done online.” ThinkingWayEndsDoneWholeHandsTechnologyPiecesCenturyDesignReaderInternetProjectsSolutionsCustomersDesignerOnline20th CenturyEquationsPostersInternet TechnologyBrochures Author:Khoi Vinh
“I think as technology and expertise makes possible these sort of amazing levels of fidelity to the real world, a lot of people sort of get sort of - what's the word I'm looking for - seduced into that. And after a time, they get tired of it and they become a little bit more interested, I think at a certain level of subtraction and a new level of sophistication.” PeopleThinkingWorldLittlesRealCertainBitsLevelsTechnologyLittle BitTiredReal WorldExpertiseFidelitySophisticationSubtraction Author:Khoi Vinh
“In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology moves so fast and the costs drop so quickly and the power, whether it's computing power or memory rises very, very quickly.” WorldMovingLife IsMemoriesTechnologyCostComputerDevicesShelvesComputingShelf Life Author:Nicholas Negroponte
“The only kinds of ways we have to deal with viruses are old school, so vaccines for example are very effective, but the first vaccines were invented in the 1700's, so we're talking about technology that is over 200 years-old.” WayYearsFirstsKindSchoolDealsTalkingTechnologyExampleVirusesVaccinesOld School Author:Carl Zimmer
“I think in many ways, the texture of technology actually diminishes human beings. It doesn't augment them.” ThinkingWayHumansHuman BeingsTechnologyDiminishTexture Author:Tod Machover
“I love working with technology because it allows me to follow my imagination and to invent new things.” ImaginationTechnologyNew ThingsMy Imagination Author:Tod Machover
“Over my career, I'd say the last 25 years; we've gone from music and computer being for 10 people in the world to having personal computers, to now being able to do amazing things on your iPhone, or with Rock Band. So, right now there's enormous capability with technology in our devices that everybody has access to.” PeopleWorldYearsAbleLastsCareersTechnologyGoneRocksRight NowBandComputerAccessEnormousDevicesCapabilityAmazing ThingsIphoneRock BandsPersonal Computers Author:Tod Machover
“I believe that the demand for long-form quality journalism is strong and I think that despite all of the changes in technology over the past few years, people still want in-depth, rigorous reporting.” PeopleThinkingWantYearsBelieveLongStillsPastFormStrongI BelieveQualityTechnologyDemandDepthDespiteJournalismOver The Past Author:Chris Hughes
“Anytime you bring a really powerful new technology to market there are multiple implications. You start changing the relative position of countries.” CountryPowerfulTechnologyPositionRelativeMultipleImplicationsNew TechnologyReally Powerful Author:Juan Enriquez
“When you brought the Industrial Revolution in, all of a sudden India and China went from being the dominant global powers to being powers dominated by those who understood how to apply this new technology.” TechnologyRevolutionUnderstoodIndiaChinaDominantNew TechnologyIndustrial Revolution Author:Juan Enriquez
“If you don't have that science and technology and brains as an input, as you don't have in large parts of Latin America, if you don't focus your education on that, if you don't find your 10,000 best scientists, but you do find your 10,000 best soccer players, the consequences are, you become a World Cup Champion in Soccer, like Brazil, but you don't become Korea, which earned 1/5 of what a Mexican did in 1975 and today earns five times more.” IfsWorldTodayAmericaBrainTechnologyFiveFocusPlayerConsequenceScientistCupsSoccerChampionLatinMexicanKoreaLatin AmericaBrazilInputWorld CupScience And TechnologySoccer Player Author:Juan Enriquez
“Until African-Americans and Hispanics can get serious, not just about area studies, which are important, but also about science and technology, they're not going to generate that wealth and that job within those communities. And that has absolutely devastating consequences for the places where people live, for the jobs and for the wealth.” PeopleImportantJobsCommunityWealthTechnologyStudySeriousConsequenceAreasAfrican AmericanScience And Technology Author:Juan Enriquez
“As soon as you have good mechanical technology, you can make things like backhoes that can dig holes in the road. But of course a backhoe can knock your head off. But you don't want to not develop a backhoe because it can knock your head off, that would be regarded as silly.” WantWould BeCoursesTechnologySillyHoles Author:Geoffrey Hinton
“Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.” PeopleIfsHappensUsedEvilTechnologyBad ThingsNew TechnologyEvil People Author:Geoffrey Hinton
“You can make yourself the greatest singer in the world or the best drummer in the world with the aid of technology.” WorldTechnologyAidsSingersDrummer Author:Dave Grohl
“We've definitely cracked the technology. Now we're just trying to be able to produce the amount of fuels that we need to satisfy our own needs and then other people's needs.” PeopleNeedsTryingAbleTechnologyProduceAmountFuelCracked Author:Richard Branson
“Just in the past couple years, we've seen digital tools display skills and abilities that ... eat deeply into what we human beings do for a living.” YearsHumansPastHuman BeingsAbilityTechnologyCoupleSkillsToolsDigitalDisplaySkills And AbilitiesDigital Tools Author:Andrew McAfee
“First click attribution is akin to giving my first girlfriend 100% of the credit for me marrying my wife.” GivingFirstsTechnologyWifeCreditMy WifeGirlfriendClicksMarryingAttributionEcommerce Author:Avinash Kaushik
“In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer's shifting idea of what their problem is.” IfsIdeasMatterProblemTechnologyComputerSolutionsSolveCustomersMeaningfulProgrammingSoftwareRequirementsShiftingComputer ProgrammingMeasure Of SuccessComputer Software Author:Jeff Atwood
“Our colonizers have taught us to believe that our health has improved because of Western medicine, Western foods, and Western technology. In a society that values progress, our colonizers taught us that conditions in the world are perpetually improving, that with each new technological advancement, each new discovery, each new way to utilize resources, each new way to alter the environment, that the world is getting better, that it is advancing. These are all lies.” WorldWayBelieveLyingValuesTechnologyEnvironmentProgressConditionsTaughtDiscoveryResourcesMedicineWesternGet BetterNew WaysTechnologicalImprovingAdvancementAdvancingTaught UsNew DiscoveriesTechnological AdvancementWestern Medicine Author:Waziyatawin
“A lot of these gadgets and pieces of technology we use become almost like friends to us, and we expect our friends to have voices.” UseVoiceTechnologyPiecesGadgets Author:Randy Thom
“If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!” IfsWantClassTechnologyWorking Class Author:Mother Jones
“The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary citizens enjoy access to information that formerly was available only to elites and nation-states. One consequence of this change is that citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human rights abuses, failing education systems, and escalating violence. Another consequence is that people possess powerful communication tools to coordinate efforts to attack those problems.” PeopleWorldHumansStatesProblemGivenNationsEnjoyUnderstandingPowerfulEffortEducationPovertyMillionsTechnologyRightsViolenceFailingInformationCommunicationRevolutionCitizensHealthyOrdinaryConsciousConsequenceToolsDestructionAbuseEnvironmentalHuman RightsAvailableAccessElitesCatastropheEducation SystemCoordinatesOrdinary CitizensAccess To InformationEscalatingEnvironmental Destruction Author:David Bornstein
“The catchall phrase big data means three things. First, it is a bundle of technologies. Second, it is a potential revolution in measurement. And third, it is a point of view, or philosophy, about how decisions will be-and perhaps should be-made in the future” ShouldFirstsMeanMadePhilosophyBigsThreeDecisionViewsTechnologyRevolutionThirdsIntuitionPoint Of ViewDataPhrasesDecision MakingThree ThingsMeasurementBundles Author:Steve Lohr
“If we do our homework right, never again should an asteroid that can do damage on the ground impact the Earth. We're living in a time-with our technology-we have the capability to eliminate that major shaper of evolution . . . the evolution of life on this planet.” IfsShouldEarthCan DoTechnologyPlanetsEvolutionFutureMajorsImpactDamageCapabilityPredictionsHomeworkAsteroidsEvolution Of Life Author:Rusty Schweickart
“Destroying the nation state are mainly three things: the global economy, global communication technology and global culture. And this is where we are lost in the process. What could be something that can provide us a transversal political sense of belonging? At the end of the day, without an alternative we end up with populism in the name of very narrow identities.” EndsStatesPoliticalCultureThreeNamesLostNationsProcessTechnologyEconomyIdentityCommunicationAlternativesThe End Of The DayBelongingDestroyingThree ThingsGlobal EconomyPopulismCommunication Technology Author:Tariq Ramadan
“Technology being the way it is, and record sales being the way it is, there are not too many things that you need to depend on a label for that you can't go out and do yourself.” WayNeedsTechnologyRecordsDependsLabels Author:Joe Budden
“It's possible for me to imagine a generation of people maybe two generations removed from you who might decide that we have an adversarial relationship with technology.” PeopleTwoMightTechnologyImagineGenerations Author:Chuck Klosterman
“Technology evolves faster than people do, faster than biology does.” PeopleDoeTechnologyFasterEvolveBiology Author:Chuck Klosterman
“If Star Wars had been released in the late '60s, or late '80s, or late '90s, adjusting for technology, it fits spectacularly well.” IfsWellsWarStarsTechnologyFitLate80sAdjusting Author:Cass Sunstein
“It seems as though our ability to change technology happens so quickly, and our ability to evolve as creatures is still very slow.” StillsSeemsHappensAbilityTechnologyCreaturesEvolveAbility To Change Author:Chuck Klosterman
“I love music, right? I can't say "I'm only going to listen to a physical medium," because there's a bunch of meaningful records that as a music fan I love that I would've never been able to access. So if I want to be part of something I have to get dragged along with technology.” IfsWantI CanAbleTechnologyRecordsFansAccessMeaningfulBunchMediumsMusic LoveI Love MusicMusic Fans Author:Chuck Klosterman
“People hate the feeling that technology is dragging them into the future, that they're not really following what's happening, but being forced to be involved. Even if it makes their life better, it still feels like it's happening against their will.” PeopleIfsFeelsStillsFeelingsHateTechnologyInvolvedHappeningsFollowing Author:Chuck Klosterman
“We're proud to offer a wide variety of bloggers from a wide variety of fields. Some are well-known, some are unknown - but all have something interesting to say. And we cover everything from politics, to entertainment, to media, to business, to style, to green, to our upcoming launch of a technology page - it's why we call HuffPost "The Internet Newspaper."” WellsInterestingKnownTechnologyMediaStyleFieldsProudInternetOffersPagesGreenEntertainmentWideNewspapersVarietyWell KnownBloggersSomething Interesting Author:Arianna Huffington
“I obviously use computers. My car is wondrous. My phone is amazing. I've already talked about the music I'm digitizing. Technology is fantastic, of course.” UseCoursesTechnologyCarComputerPhonesFantasticWondrous Author:Ian MacKaye
“If UEFA will not embrace video technology, then we need two more officials behind the goals to help the referee.” IfsNeedsTwoHelpingGoalBehindsTechnologyEmbraceVideoOfficialsReferee Author:Andy Townsend