“I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.” WayArtFormTechnologyFascinatedKeyboardsJuxtaposition Author:Geoff Downes
“All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.” ArtFormTechnologyMediaAssumptionImposingNew Media Author:Marshall McLuhan
“Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.” HumansFormGrowthTechnologyCommunicationInternetSolitudeDirectIncreasePhonesProportionEmailRapidsFaxRapid Growth Author:Werner Herzog
“The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.” WayFeelingsFormLanguageTechnologyOriginalsTexting Author:Carol Ann Duffy
“When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of nature's evolution. Countless women have regained trust in their bodies through nursing their children, even if they weren't sure at first that they could do it. It is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism in its purest form.” IfsThinkingYearsFirstsBelieveChildrenBodyFormThreeLosesChanceAbilityMillionsTechnologyFeminismBabyEvolutionFemaleAspectClaimsSuperiorsThirtyBreastsMakersFormulasMilkNursingThirty YearsBreastfeedingFemale Power Author:Christiane Northrup
“If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artist? Or would they begin a careful translation of new art forms into social navigation charts? I am curious to know what would happem if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties.” IfsKnowsMenArtAbleFormArtistOrderNextSocialTechnologyInformationArt IsConsequenceBlowCarefulConvincedCuriousFacultyPrecisePsychicsTranslationsAnticipateNavigation Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.” MenMadeEndsFormTechnologyModernCenturyBuildingLowsArchitectureTallArchitectDoomedTwentieth CenturyDilemmaCalculationsConcentratingPatronTall Buildings Author:Martin Filler
“In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form.” BookShowsFormTechnologyComputerProductionsStatisticsAffectedOld FashionedCdsProliferationComputer Technology Author:Alberto Manguel
“For the sake of my children and grandchildren, I hope that the human talent for self-destruction can be successfully controlled, or at least channelled into productive forms, but I doubt it. I think we are moving into extremely volatile and dangerous times, as modern electronic technologies give mankind almost unlimited powers to play with its own psychopathology as a game.” ThinkingGivingHumansChildrenSelfPlayMovingFormGamesTechnologyDoubtModernMankindTalentDangerousDestructionSakeMy ChildrenProductiveControlledUnlimitedGrandchildrenSelf DestructionChildren And GrandchildrenPsychopathologyUnlimited Power Author:J. G. Ballard
“In our time, in particular, there exists another form of ownership which is becoming no less important than land: the possession of know-how, technology and skill. The wealth of the industrialized nations is based much more on this kind of ownership than on natural resources.” KnowsKindImportantWisdomFormPoliticsNationsNaturalWealthTechnologyKnow HowEconomyLandParticularBecomingSkillsResourcesPossessionOur TimeLiberalismOwnershipNatural Resources Author:Pope John Paul II
“The widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in retrospect only those technologies that prove functional for a culture and can be integrated into everyday life are 'left over.' However, the perception of what is functional, successful and useful is itself the product of social and cultural--and last but not least--political and economic processes. Selection processes and abandoned products and product forms are usually not discussed.” FactsLastsFormPoliticalCultureLeftSocialProcessTechnologySuccessfulEconomicProductsProvePerceptionEverydayAbandonedEntityTechnologicalEveryday LifeSelectionInabilityIntegratedRetrospectArtifacts Author:Johannes Grenzfurthner
“Technology policy - whether we should have one and what form such a policy should take - was a core issue of the 1992 presidential campaign, and in February 1993 the Clinton administration confirmed that fostering new technologies will be a critical part of its agenda for redirecting the American economy.” ShouldFormTechnologyEconomyIssuesPolicyShould HaveClintonCriticalCampaignsCoreAdministrationPresidentialAgendasNew TechnologyFebruaryPresidential CampaignFosteringAmerican Economy Author:Lewis M. Branscomb
“Designing Online Communities is a must-have for anyone designing or researching online communities, particularly for learning. Owens' work is both comprehensive and eminently readable, a sweeping look at the technologies, design patterns, and cultural forms they produce that is both theoretically ambitious and grounded in examples and tools that will help you develop, research, and manage online communities.” LooksHelpingFormCommunityTechnologyExampleDesignProduceResearchToolsPatternsManageOnlineAmbitiousGroundedComprehensiveSweeping Author:Kurt Squire
“Sony is a clear leader in the digital camera and camcorder categories. As Sony continues to develop next-generation video and still image capture technologies, the demand for high speed, large capacity, small form factor memory cards will grow as well.” WellsStillsFormNextGrowsMemoriesLeaderTechnologyClearGenerationsDemandCapacityCamerasSpeedVideoFactorsCardsDigitalCategoriesCaptureNext GenerationHigh SpeedSonyDigital Cameras Author:Bill Vaughan
“Technology is technology and then art form and people's creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything - great! Technology for technology sake doesn't mean much to me anyway.” PeopleMeanArtHelpingFormArtistCreativityTechnologySakeGreat Technology Author:Tim Burton
“Scientists surely have a special responsibility. It is their ideas that form the basis of new technology. They should not be indifferent to the fruits of their ideas. They should forgo experiments that are risky or unethical.” ShouldIdeasFormResponsibilityTechnologySpecialScientistBasesFruitExperimentsIndifferentNew TechnologyUnethical Author:Martin Rees
“Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.” FormTechnologyModernPossibilityBuildingCreatingSignificantUrban Author:Kenneth Frampton
“Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.” ThinkingMayMeanFormReadingBrainTechnologyPossibilityCommunicationHabitStructureAvailableOnlineCommunication Technology Author:Margaret Atwood
“I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.” ThinkingShouldHumansFormScienceTechnologySecurityHuman NatureComputerAliensDestructiveVirusesComputer TechnologyFunny ComputerSpace AliensComputer SecurityComputer Viruses Author:Stephen Hawking
“People look at technology as sometimes an end to things, and it isn't an end in certain cases. In the movie business, the act of creating in the art form of movies, the craft of movies is completely technical, and that's all it is.” PeopleLooksArtEndsSometimesFormCertainCasesTechnologyCreatingCraftsMovie Business Author:George Lucas
“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
“This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls.” FunnyFormScienceTechnologyMachinesUltimateFreakSophisticatedWireOstentation Author:Michael Swanwick
“Science is not something that exists apart from human beings. It's one of the things we do as human beings, and we always have done science and technology in some form.” HumansDoneFormHuman BeingsTechnologyScience And Technology Author:Margaret Atwood
“Empathy and fellow feeling form the very basis of morality. The capacities for empathy, for feeling responsibility toward others and for reaching out to help them can be stunted or undermined early on, depending on a child's experiences in the home and neighborhood. It becomes too easy to turn our backs on fellow human beings... to have 'compassion fatigue.' Technology, we are learning, is not neutral.” HumansChildrenHelpingFeelingsHomeFormTurnsLanguageEasyHuman BeingsResponsibilityCompassionTechnologySocietyCommunicationMoralityEmpathyCapacityBasesFellowsReachingNeighborhoodReach OutFatigueFellow Feeling Author:Sissela Bok
“The technology for a clothing printer exists but is not packaged in a form that would be suitable for consumer use. With the future potential of printing technology, an at-home clothing printer is a definite possibility. Our challenge was to define the experience.” UseHomeWould BeFormChallengesTechnologyPossibilityConsumersClothingsDefinitePrintingSuitablePrinter Author:Joshua Harris
“Obviously technologies that are sustainable are a logical first step to creating a just society, one that doesn't trample life in all its forms, whether it's other humans or other life forms on the earth, one that acknowledges that we're all sharing the space and that there needs to be room for every living thing somewhere.” NeedsFirstsHumansEarthFormSpaceRoomsStepsTechnologyCreatingAcknowledgeLogicalFirst StepsLiving Things Author:John Lindsay
“We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going to die, but they would never say that movies will die with it, when in fact all forms depend on the narrative. I think if one of them fails, the others are going to fail as well. Maybe this will happen to both forms, and maybe movies will take a totally different direction with fiction.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWellsDifferentFactsHappensFormUsedDiesFictionTechnologyNovelKnow HowFailingDependsNarrativeDifferent Directions Author:Don DeLillo
“If you view computer designers as artists, they're really into more of an art form that can be mass-produced, like records, or like prints, than they are into fine arts. They want something where they can express themselves to a large number of people through their medium, and their medium is technology and manufacturing.” PeopleIfsWantArtFormArtistViewsNumbersTechnologyRecordsFineComputerMassMediumsDesignerPrintWant SomethingManufacturingFine ArtsLarge Numbers Author:Steve Jobs
“We think of Craigslist as a form of Social Media.We provide a simple service that is mostly free and we leave money in the community, instead of taking it away. Shared values, nothing fancy, treating people like we want to be treated. What works on the net works for people in general. The net has very little to do with technology, what matters is how people use the technology.” PeopleThinkingWantLittlesMatterUseFormValuesSocialCommunitySimpleTechnologyMediaSocial MediaTreatedFancyWhat MattersShared ValuesCraigslist Author:Craig Newmark
“A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like a form of propaganda &emdash; often persuasive, almost always wrong.” FormTechnologyPropagandaProjectionLinearPersuasiveAlways Wrong Author:Pamela McCorduck
“The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.” StillsBookReasonFormHumanityTechnologyWrittenInformationRemainsStrategyEndureLegacySpiteInformation TechnologyWritten WordInternet Technology Author:Ibrahim Babangida
“Tribalism is a social form which can exist at any level of technology. It's a complete illusion to associate it with low levels of technology. It is probably, in fact, a form of social organization second only to the family in its ability to endure.” FactsFormSocialAbilityLevelsTechnologyLowsIllusionOrganizationEndureAssociatesTribalismLow LevelSocial Organization Author:Terence McKenna
“To do justice to modern technology's rigid linear structure, to the lofty gridwork of cranes and bridges, to the dynamism of machines operating at one thousand horsepower - only photography is capable of that. What those who are attached to the painterly style regard as photography's defect, the mechanical reproduction of form - is just what makes it superior to all other means of expression.” MeanFormJusticeTechnologyModernStyleExpressionThousandPhotographyCapableMachinesRegardStructureSuperiorsBridgesDefectsLoftyReproductionLinearDynamismCranesModern TechnologyHorsepower Author:Albert Renger-Patzsch
“We have seen and do see the type of evil that is within human civilization, and the Holocaust took place in European history during an advanced state of technology and form of civilization, only to become an event in that history that questioned what civilization actually means.” HumansMeanStatesFormEvilTechnologyEventsTypeCivilizationHolocaustHuman CivilizationEuropean History Author:Laszlo Nemes
“In the near term, oil is galloping ahead and leading our economy. We have to corral the "horse" and gradually reduce our dependence on oil and coal, in their present forms. Green-energy investment is inherently high-tech, and we could lead in the next-generation energy technologies, as we did and do now with oil and gas. All it takes is leadership!” FormNextEnergyTermTechnologyEconomyGenerationsHorseGreenInvestmentOilGasDependenceCoalNext GenerationLead InOil And GasGallopingGreen Energy Author:Wesley K. Wark
“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
“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
“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