“By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.” ShouldEarthLeftPovertyTechnologyModernModern Technology Author:E. A. Bucchianeri
“Russia has to have a technology company of global meaning sooner or later. We should take the depth of technical culture we have here and make it available worldwide.” ShouldCultureCompanyTechnologyDepthAvailableRussiaSooner Or Later Author:Arkady Volozh
“For all the advances in technology, science and communications, there are signs that we are failing in areas where it matters most: our personal relationships and society in general. The atomisation of society evidenced by the startling increase in recent decades of single person households and the identification of loneliness and isolation as one of our most pressing new social problems, should give us cause for concern.” GivingShouldPersonsMatterProblemSocialCausesTechnologyFailingLonelinessCommunicationAreasConcernIncreaseDecadesIsolationHouseholdIdentificationSingle PersonPersonal RelationshipsSocial Problems Author:Cory Bernardi
“Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing and agriculture. We now have an economy based on knowledge and technology.” NeedsShouldYearsSchoolTechnologyEconomyStudentsExpectationsYears AgoCurrentsAgricultureManufacturing Author:Bill Gates
“I believe technology should give us superpowers. Everyone should have the opportunity to learn to think, analyze, and create with technology.” ThinkingGivingShouldBelieveOpportunityI BelieveTechnologyShould HaveSuperpowerOpportunities To Learn Author:Hilary Mason
“We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often "crash" when we tried to use them. Before long, computers will be as trivial and plentiful as chairs and we will cease to be aware of the things. In fact I'm sure we will look back on this last decade and wonder how we could ever have mistaken what we were doing with them for "productivity"” ThinkingShouldLooksLongFactsUseLastsWonderTechnologyComputerShould HaveLegsDecadesProductivityCeaseChairsTallCrashMistakenPlentiful Author:Douglas Adams
“When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow the Government to deploy those technologies.” ThinkingShouldStatesHandsGovernmentAsksDecisionTechnologyPolicyPoliceOneselfNew TechnologyPublic PolicyPolice State Author:Phil Zimmermann
“...heavy investments in information technology have delivered disappointing results - largely because companies tend to use technology to mechanize old ways of doing business...Instead of embedding outdated processes in silicon and software, we should obliterate them and start over.” WayShouldUseProcessResultsCompanyTechnologyInformationInvestmentHeavySoftwareStarting OverDisappointingInformation TechnologySiliconOld WaysOutdatedEmbedding Author:Michael Martin Hammer
“We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art.” IfsNeedsShouldArtSchoolJobsGuyOrderChanceTechnologyArt Is Author:LL Cool J
“The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.” PeopleWorldShouldTodayNationsTechnologyGenerationsScientistSafetyInstitutionsPlantNuclearAcademicElectricityFeedbackNuclear PowerUpdatesNuclear Plants Author:Abdul Kalam
“You could make some great sounds with technology. That's what recording is all about. What happens in the studio is very magical, and should be, in my opinion.” ShouldHappensSoundOpinionTechnologyStudios Author:Tony Visconti
“How many people, how many of us want to get on an airplane where you know only, only 20% of the pilots use the checklist? Why would you do that? I think we should be outraged because the technology is there, it's totally available. We're just not using it yet.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantShouldUseTechnologyAvailablePilotsAirplaneOutragedChecklists Author:William Davis
“f the government is going to put money into the automobile sector, it should break up GM and Chrysler as a condition of financial aid, and it should be even-handed in its treatment of start-up firms like Tesla, Miles, Fisker, and others. It would be terrible to kill the entrepreneurs who have taken great risks to bring new automotive technologies to market by pumping tax dollars into the behemoths that have done everything wrong for the last years.” ShouldYearsDoneGovernmentWould BeLastsBreakTechnologyTakenRiskConditionsTerribleTaxesDollarsEntrepreneurFinancialAidsMilesFirmTreatmentLast YearAutomobileGreat RiskTeslaTax DollarsChryslerBehemothFinancial Aid Author:Denis Hayes
“Cities should function more like ecosystems, or even metabolisms. When we build, we should be thinking about how we can integrate into the ecosystems around us, but without sacrificing all the niceties of civilization like good restaurants, concert halls, and high-speed Internet access. I'm saying that partly tongue-in-cheek, but I'm also deadly serious. The future of technology is sustainable ecology.” ThinkingShouldCitiesTechnologySacrificeSeriousInternetCivilizationFunctionTongueSpeedAccessRestaurantsHallsConcertsCheeksEcologyIntegratingEcosystemsHigh SpeedMetabolismNicetiesTongue In CheekInternet Access Author:Annalee Newitz
“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 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
“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
“I believe that products should use technology to empower people of all abilities, to augment our minds and bodies, to make us better human beings.” PeopleShouldMindBelieveHumansUseBodyI BelieveHuman BeingsAbilityTechnologyProductsEmpoweringMind And Body Author:Tom Gruber
“Technology provides means for expression and interchange and so on, so yes it should be free and open, but there are a lot of constraints on how its used.” ShouldMeanUsedTechnologyExpressionConstraintsInterchange Author:Noam Chomsky