“I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There'll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there'll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy.” PeopleThinkingAmericaChoicesStuffVoiceTechnologyChangedSeriousHealthyOrganizationGood People Author:Brian Lamb
“Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how many viewers are watching beyond some people with Nielsen boxes in a small percentage of homes in random areas.” PeopleWayNeedsHomeTechnologyFiguresChangedAreasDetermineBoxesViewersPercentages Author:Jim Rash
“Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.” FirstsBigsPovertyTechnologyEconomyCrimeChangedStrongerIndependenceImpactDollarsJamaicaBig Impact Author:Damian Marley
“Everything's changed. The technology is the big thing changing now, the way movies like 'Alice' or 'Avatar' are made. And technology on the other side, the audience side. Word spreads so fast now on a movie, with the Internet, and piracy is something coming down the line like in the music industry.” WayMadeBigsSidesLinesTechnologyAudienceChangedIndustryInternetSpreadBig ThingsThings ChangeMusic IndustryPiracy Author:Richard D. Zanuck
“It is despairing to consider that the cost and reliability of access to space have barely changed since the Apollo era over three decades ago. Yet in virtually every other field of technology, we have made great strides in reducing cost and increasing capability.” MadeThreeSpaceTechnologyFieldsChangedCostDecadesAccessErasCapabilityApolloReducingStrideReliability Author:Elon Musk
“Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.” TechnologyChangedPaintingOilNew TechnologyOil Painting Author:Joe Bradley
“Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically. A good example is digital technology where today's cell phones are far more powerful than the computers on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module that we used to navigate to the moon and operate all the spacecraft control systems.” TodayUsedSpacePowerfulCasesTechnologyExampleChangedMoonComputerPhonesCommandCellsDigitalApolloCell PhoneNavigateGood ExamplesSpacecraftDigital Technology Author:Neil Armstrong
“Make a small painting of what you want to do... and project it up on a white wall... The enlarged version is so changed that there is no way of just visualizing it in the brain... It's a whole new dimension in painting.” WayWantWholeWhiteBrainTechnologyChangedPaintingWallProjectsWhat You WantVersionsDimensionsVisualizingWhite Walls Author:Jim Rowe
“New information technologies-including email, the web, and computerized blast-faxes and phone calls-have fundamentally changed the landscape of political competition in modern democracies. They've done so in three ways: by dramatically boosting the access of individuals and special interests to politically potent information, by making it easier for such people to coordinate their activities and exert political power, and by greatly increasing the pace of events within our political systems.” PeopleWayDonePoliticalThreePoliticsIndividualInterestTechnologyDemocracyModernSpecialEventsInformationChangedInternetEasierActivityCompetitionIncludingPhonesAccessLandscapePaceEmailBlastPolitical SystemsPhone CallsInformation TechnologyPolitical PowerSpecial InterestsCoordinatesNew InformationThree WaysFax Author:Thomas Homer-Dixon
“I would love to see what's going to happen with science fiction with peoples' heads, because we still have people running around in the year 2050 or 2100 or 2200 and they have incredible technology and you see the effects: laser beams and rays and beaming down and beaming up. Incredible technical things happening, but everybody is still running around jealous, fighting, whacking, cheating. There's got to be something going on! Some kind of change. I'd like to see something starting to happen in that area, with the psychology of the human being and how that changed.” PeopleYearsHumansKindStillsHappensRunningFightingHuman BeingsFictionTechnologyPsychologyEffectsChangedHappeningsAreasDown AndScience FictionIncrediblesStartingThings HappenCheatingJealousRaysBeamLasers Author:Leslie Nielsen
“It is technology. They all changed to a harder golf ball, so they gave up spinning on the greens. They all changed to longer drivers, bigger heads with hotter faces and lighter shafts. The problem is, the harder you hit it, the more control you lose.” ProblemFacesLosesTechnologyChangedBallsBiggerHarderGolfDriversSpinningGave UpLightersHotterGolf Ball Author:Tiger Woods
“Everywhere we look, technology has changed our daily lives - from the way we pay our bills, to the way we buy plane tickets or keep in touch with friends and family.” WayLooksPayTechnologyChangedBillsPlanesDaily LifeTicketsFamily And Friends Author:Peter Roskam
“Steve Jobs was a visionary in the technology and telecom community. His contributions to innovating communications have forever changed our industry and our lives. He will be greatly missed.” JobsCommunityTechnologyForeverOur LivesChangedCommunicationIndustryContributionVisionariesTelecom Author:Steve Largent
“Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.” TechnologyDemocracyChangedElectionGovernanceCampaigning Author:Beth Simone Noveck
“Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible and freely exchanged. For hip-hop to grow while keeping a sense of integrity, the essence of the culture has to be handed down and respected like any high form of art.” ArtStatesFormCultureGrowsTechnologyChangedIntegrityMusic IsEssenceDown AndHip HopHipsHopsGreat Art Author:One9
“As well as Japanese animation, technology has a huge influence on Japanese society, and also Japanese novels. It's because before, people tended to think that ideology or religion were the things that actually changed people, but it's been proven that that's not the case. Technology has been proven to be the thing that's actually changing people. So in that sense, it's become a theme in Japanese culture.” PeopleThinkingWellsHas BeensCultureCasesTechnologyNovelInfluenceChangedHugeIdeologyThemeProvenAnimationJapanese CultureJapanese Animation Author:Mamoru Oshii
“Technology and the internet have changed the world of publishing forever.” WorldTechnologyForeverChangedInternetPublishing Author:Mary Kay Andrews
“We can see how the role of mobile has changed in past 20 years. It is a perfect example of how one innovation can change an entire era.” YearsPastPerfectRolesTechnologyExampleChangedIndiaInnovationErasMobileInformation Technology Author:Narendra Modi
“I changed my headlights the other day. I put in strobe lights instead! Now when I drive at night, it looks like everyone else is standing still.” LooksStillsLightFunnyScienceNightTechnologyChangedStandingStanding StillHeadlightsStrobe Lights Author:Steven Wright
“Today they have to be three-dimensional. Technology's changed, the communication, the marketing and advertising community supports beautiful girls that can be articulate and smart. And also Anna Wintour doesn't want to sit next to some girl who can't say two words.” WantTwoTodayBeautifulGirlThreeNextCommunityTechnologySupportChangedCommunicationSmartMarketingAdvertisingAnnaBeautiful GirlCommunity Support Author:Michael Flutie
“If the technology hadn't changed, they [newspapers] would still be great businesses. Network TV [in its heyday], anyone could run and do well. If Tom Murphy as running it, you'd do very well, but even your idiot nephew could do well. Fortunately, carbide cutting tools [such as those made by Iscar] don't have these types of substitutes.” IfsWellsMadeStillsRunningTechnologyCuttingChangedTvsTypeToolsNewspapersIdiotSubstitutesTomsMurphyNephewGreat BusinessHeyday Author:Charlie Munger
“I think that people can get caught up in the "gee-whiz" technology of surveying, which is constantly changing, and forget about the legal aspects and the professional responsibility that surveyors bear - something that hasn't changed much at all in hundreds of years.” PeopleThinkingYearsForgetResponsibilityTechnologyChangedBearsAspectCaughtCaught UpSurveyors Author:Mark Mason
“Well technology has changed a lot of things, making it possible for just about anyone to make music. But not everybody is a songwriter, so that puts me in a completely different ballpark than the other DJs out here that are writing and producing tracks. I don't stop at tracks, I try to complete the whole package with the song. So working at that level has put me in a completely different place.” WritingTryingWellsDifferentWholeSongLevelsTechnologyChangedTrackSongwritersPackagesDifferent PlaceDjsBallparks Author:Frankie Knuckles
“Every profession has changed. Journalism has changed. Medicine has changed. Technology has changed and it evolves. The same is true of football. Free agency has now allowed teams to be a dynasty as they have been before. It is not a great thing for the fans, but it is a good thing for the players.” Has BeensTechnologyPlayerTeamFansChangedFootballMedicineGood ThingsProfessionGreat ThingsJournalismEvolveAgencyDynastyFree Agency Author:Marv Levy
“Technology has a great deal to do with it. The Panaflex camera was a big breakthrough when it came along; it changed everything, because now you could shoot from the perspective of a person riding in the backseat of a car.” PersonsBigsDealsTechnologyCarChangedPerspectiveCamerasRidingBreakthroughBackseat Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“Everything - design and technology and materials - has changed since the World Trade Center was built. A lot of it has to do with computers, which allow us to be far more efficient as well as structurally sound.” WorldWellsSoundTechnologyDesignChangedMaterialsComputerBuiltTradeEfficientWorld TradeWorld Trade Center Author:Frank Gehry