“When we were negotiating the ongoing financial period in 2013, I talked myself hoarse. London and Berlin in particular insisted on reducing the budget. So we - to the applause of German journalists - made cuts to central future-oriented areas and slashed the budget for development aid, research and technology.” MadeTechnologyCuttingParticularDevelopmentPeriodsResearchAreasFinancialLondonAidsJournalistBudgetsOngoingApplauseReducingBerlinNegotiatingDevelopment Aid Author:Martin Schulz
“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
“Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.” MadeRealTurnsTechnologyFlatsRepresentatives Book:Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances Source: Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances
“One paradox I have found is that, the more you use computers in picture-making, the more hand-made the picture becomes. Oddly, then, digital technology is leading, in my work at least, toward a greater reliance on handmaking because the assembly and montage of the various parts of the picture is done very carefully by hand.” MadeDoneUseHandsFoundTechnologyGreaterComputerVariousDigitalParadoxRelianceAssemblyDigital Technology Author:Jeff Wall
“Between the poor and any appreciation for modern science stands a wall made of failed schools, defunded libraries, denied opportunities, and the systematic use of science and technology to benefit other people at their [the poor's] expense.” PeopleMadeUseSchoolOpportunityPoorTechnologyModernWallBenefitsLibraryAppreciationExpensesDeniedSystematicScience And TechnologyModern ScienceUses Of Science Author:John Michael Greer
“If a technology is elegant, biodegradable, made from renewable materials and employs a minimum of muscular, water or wind energy, is responsive, beautiful in its way, and challenging to the user in that it develops the user's senses and strength - it may comport with nature.” IfsWayMayMadeBeautifulEnergyWaterChallengesTechnologyWindMaterialsSensesUsersMinimumElegantWind EnergyBiodegradable Author:Stephanie Mills
“Certainly in terms of technology, it's made a tremendous impact, but medicine is still within the realm of what we might call "objective" science. It's still part of the objective way of looking at the world.” WorldWayMadeStillsMightTermTechnologyImpactMedicineObjectivesRealms Author:Fred Alan Wolf
“As Michigan's voice on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I will continue working to make sure the next generation of advanced technologies and alternative fuel vehicles are made right here in America.” MadeAmericaNextEnergyVoiceNaturalTechnologyGenerationsResourcesFinanceAlternativesFuelSenateVehicleCommitteesNext GenerationNatural ResourcesMichiganAdvanced Technology Author:Debbie Stabenow
“When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?” PeopleThinkingMadeTechnologyPlansSacrificeFieldsLaboratoryDefence Author:Abdul Kalam
“All this stuff - about the materiality of the network, what it's made of, and how it works - should be part of a basic media literacy, because we depend on this technology for more and more aspects of our day-to-day lives.” ShouldMadeStuffTechnologyMediaDependsAspectDay To DayLiteracyDay LifeDay To Day LifeMaterialityMedia Literacy Author:Astra Taylor
“I assumed that the pencil market was collapsing, but then it turns out that from 2010 to 2011 in the United States, pencil consumption went up by over six percent. I mean, those are all foreign-made pencils. Those are probably Chinese pencils, mostly, and Mexican pencils. I mean, it is an archaic communication technology, but it is still ubiquitous.” MeanMadeStillsStatesTurnsUnitedTechnologyUnited StatesCommunicationSixPercentChineseConsumptionPencilsMexicanCommunication Technology Author:David Rees
“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
“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
“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
“We lost our way a long time ago with technology. Just because something is an advancement by going digital - that was a huge (expletive) mistake. It was a way for people to make money, but it sure didn't improve sound or quality of record making. It made it faster, cheaper, but it isn't as durable.” PeopleWayLongMadeLostSoundMistakeQualityTechnologyRecordsHugeLong TimeMade ItFasterMaking MoneyDigitalAdvancementLong Time AgoCheaper Author:John Mellencamp
“I remember somebody saying, "I feel really bad for kids growing up around iPads right now. It's just too complicated. Life's too complicated." I think, yeah, but I remember being a kid and holding up a new piece of technology that was made in the '80s and my grandparents going, "Oh, it's too complicated." It didn't seem complicated to me.” ThinkingFeelsMadeSeemsKidsRememberTechnologyGrowing UpPiecesGrowingRight NowYeahComplicatedGrandparent80sIpadsKids Growing UpBeing A KidComplicated Life Author:Dan Mangan
“American women are so fortunate. When I got married, all I wanted in the world was a dryer so I didn't have to hang up my diapers. And now women have paper diapers and all sorts of conveniences in the home. And it is the man and the technology that has made the home such a pleasant place for women to be.” MenWorldMadeHomeWantedTechnologyHe ManPaperMarriedFortunatePleasantConvenienceAmerican WomanDiapersHang UpsDryers Author:Phyllis Schlafly
“Technology can also be used so that private individuals will have access to the way centralized decisions are being made.” WayMadeUsedIndividualDecisionTechnologyAccess Author:Noam Chomsky
“[Internet] is kind of like a hammer. The technology itself doesn't determine how its used. It depends on the social, cultural and economic context in which the technology is made available.” KindMadeUsedSocialTechnologyEconomicDependsInternetDetermineAvailableHammers Author:Noam Chomsky