“Susan Wojcicki at Google makes a point to leave the office at 6 P.M. After 9 P.M. she gets back online to handle any pressing work issues that need her attention. She told us she hopes that sends a message to all parents that it's OK to spend time away from the office. All the women we spoke to on the show use technology in a similar way. They are very clear that they don't need to be chained to a desk. They can take time out of their work day to be with their families.” WayNeedsUseShowsParentAttentionTechnologyIssuesClearOfficeMessagesHandleOnlineSpokesGet BackTake TimeGoogleDesksEnd TimesSpend TimeChainedTime AwayWork Day Author:Willow Bay
“If we can use technology to shorten the path between intention and action, that excites me.” IfsUseActionTechnologyPathIntention Author:Gerry Lopez
“Our obsession is how we can use technology to reach our big goals, first peace, which will allow us more equality and better education.” FirstsUseBigsPeaceGoalEducationTechnologyObsession Author:Juan Manuel Marquez
“Sci-fi uses the images that sf - starting with H.G. Wells - made familiar: space travel, aliens, galactic wars and federations, time machines, et cetera, taking them literally, not caring if they are possible or even plausible. It has no interest in or relation to real science or technology. It's fantasy in space suits. Spectacle. Wizards with lasers. Kids with ray guns. I've written both, but I have to say I respect science fiction enough that I wince when people call it sci-fi.” PeopleIfsWellsMadeWarRealEnoughUseKidsInterestSpaceFictionTechnologyFantasyWrittenGunMachinesRelationScience FictionStartingCaringFamiliarSuitsAliensRaysSci FiWizardsSpace TravelPlausibleNot CaringLasersTime MachineFederationWince Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“But it is as silly to think about peer-to-peer as applying just to music as it would have been to think about the Internet as applying just to pornography. Whatever the initial use of the technology, it has nothing to do with the potential of the architecture to serve many other extremely important functions.” ThinkingHas BeensImportantUseTechnologyInternetFunctionArchitectureSillyPeersPornographyInitials Author:Lawrence Lessig
“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
“Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.” ThinkingFirstsUseSoundTechnologyJazzSingersFilmmakerColourSurroundFilmmakingGimmicksSurround Sound Author:John Lasseter
“We use a lot of creativity and new technology, cutting edge things to use in our church, but really what it comes down to is God changing a life.” UseChurchCreativityTechnologyCuttingEdgesNew TechnologyCutting Edge Author:Kerry Shook
“Did you ever notice that people who are good with a computer don't use it for much of anything except being good with a computer? They know all about information technology, but they don't have much interest in the information. I'm the opposite.” PeopleKnowsUseInterestTechnologyInformationComputerOppositesBe GoodInformation Technology Author:Andy Rooney
“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
“We are products not of our technologies, but of our choices about how to use them.” UseChoicesTechnologyProductsOur Choices Author:Mal Fletcher
“The thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality to show each other the insides of our own heads.” ThinkingUseShowsRealityAbleTechnologyVirtual Reality Author:Terence McKenna
“I think it's interesting because the 1990s ended with the government pretty much giving up. There was a recognition that encryption was important. In 2000, the government considerably loosened the export controls on encryption technology and really went about actively encouraging the use of encryption rather than discouraging it.” ThinkingGivingImportantUseGovernmentInterestingTechnologyGiving UpRecognitionDiscouragingEncryption Author:Matt Blaze
“...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
“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
“... while in theory digital technology entails the flawless replication of data, its actual use in contemporary society is characterized by the loss of data, degradation, and noise; the noise which is even stronger than that of traditional photography.” UseLossTechnologyTheoryPhotographyStrongerContemporaryNoiseTraditionalDataDigitalDegradationFlawlessDigital TechnologyContemporary SocietyReplication Author:Lev Manovich
“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
“The use of electronics is a natural extension of the instrument - it is an electric guitar. So we guitarists have been plugging into something since 1931, and we are not about to stop now. Current advances in technology means we can have a huge array of sounds at our fingertips, and this offers amazing possibilities to the contemporary composer. It is always a guitar (I don't play synthesizer) but it becomes something else all together - more like sculpting sound in real time using metal wires, 5 fingers and a pick.” MeanHas BeensRealPlayUseTogetherSoundNaturalTechnologyPossibilityHugeOffersPicksInstrumentsFingersGuitarCurrentsContemporaryMetalsComposerElectricExtensionsWireGuitaristUsing MeFingertipsElectronicsElectric GuitarSculptingSynthesizers Author:Tim Brady
“Individuals can refuse to use a given technology, but unless they live in total isolation will have to engage with people whose psyches have been shaped by a multitude of technologies. And there is no escaping the pervasive ecological effects.” PeopleHas BeensUseIndividualGivenTechnologyEffectsRefuseIsolationMultitudesEcologicalEscapingPsych Author:Stephanie Mills
“Governments, existing primarily to protect and enhance capitalism, maintain their power through the use of technologies that control the populace - by bread or circuses, by war or schooling, by armies and police, all of which are enabled and empowered by technology. That is what we might call the stick part of capitalism, while the riches-for-the-few is the carrot.” WarUseGovernmentMightTechnologyProtectCapitalismArmyPoliceSticksRichesBreadEmpoweredCircusSchoolingCarrotsUse Of Technology Author:Kirkpatrick Sale
“It is a serious undertaking and yes, we do need more fencing and we do need to use technology, and we do need more border control. And we need to have better cooperation by the way with local law enforcement. There are 800,000 cops on the beat, they ought to be trained to be the eyes and ears for law enforcement for the threat against terror as well as for immigration.” WayNeedsWellsUseEyeLawTechnologySeriousOughtBeatsEarsThreatTerrorImmigrationLocalsBordersCooperationCopLaw EnforcementEnforcementUndertakingsFencingBorder Control Author:Jeb Bush
“We, the great American nation, decided that we've got 138 military bases around the world and we've now figured out that we can buy these drones from the Israelis, and we've decided that the way to proceed is to use this new technology to go and kill anybody that we don't like or who disagrees with us or who we might perceive as making an existential threat.” WorldWayUseMightNationsTechnologyMilitaryDecidedBasesThreatAround The WorldPerceiveDisagreeExistentialNew TechnologyGreat AmericanDronesMilitary Bases Author:Roger Waters
“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
“So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic.” WorldUseBornTechnologyMagicTenFingersDevicesPointingPhenomenalNew Technology Author:Steve Jobs
“I'm passionate about restoring the efficacy of American democracy, making capitalism sustainable, prioritizing advances in technology, and seizing the opportunities to use that kind of innovation to help usher in a new economy that doesn't rely on carbon-spewing fossil fuels.” KindHelpingUseOpportunityTechnologyEconomyDemocracyCapitalismInnovationPassionateRelyFuelCarbonFossilsFossil FuelRestoringPrioritizeEfficacyAmerican DemocracySeizing Author:Al Gore
“One of the biggest issues with renewables right now is the fact that if the wind isn't blowing, if the sun isn't shining, we don't have energy. Many people are working on storage technology so when the wind isn't blowing, we can use the energy stored in our giant batteries, essentially. But what happens if we don't have enough stored energy?” PeopleIfsEnoughFactsUseHappensEnergyTechnologySunIssuesWindRight NowShiningGiantsBatteriesStorage Author:Katharine Hayhoe
“Whatever social network that comes along, whether it be Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, whatever it is, I'll use it in a creative sense to push the vision and explore the possibilities of the relationship between humans and technology.” HumansUseSocialVisionTechnologyCreativePossibilityInstagramSocial NetworkSnapchat Author:Kesh
“With enough money and international coordination, we can push incoming asteroids out of Earth's path. We might even be able to bring back extinct animals in the lab. The problem really isn't scientific - it's cultural. We aren't yet able to coordinate ourselves as a global civilization to do something simple like bring food to a famine-stricken region. We can actually use current satellite technologies to predict where famine will strike next, but we can't get food there - usually for political reasons.” ReasonEnoughUseProblemMightAbleEarthPoliticalNextSimpleAnimalTechnologyPathCivilizationInternationalCurrentsStrikesRegionsFamineLabsSatellitesAsteroidsCoordinationCoordinatesExtinct Animals Author:Annalee Newitz
“Using virtual world, a scientist in Japan can conduct an experiment using a special facility in California, watching the entire thing via a live stream - and possibly controlling the experimental equipment remotely. We can use that same kind of technology to control a robot on Mars.” WorldKindUseTechnologySpecialScientistExperimentsCaliforniaStreamsJapanMarsEquipmentRobotsFacilityVirtual World Author:Annalee Newitz
“What's great is we actually have friends who belong or have previously belonged to the Amish community, so we got first hand stories and I was able to talk with them about visitors and visiting the Amish country. It was very enlightening to think this is very much going on as we speak. What was really interesting was that the upcoming Amish generation is actually closer to average American teenager in their use of the English language because of the use of technology.” ThinkingFirstsCountryStoriesUseHandsAbleSpeakLanguageCommunityInterestingTechnologyGenerationsAverageTeenagerEnglish LanguageEnlighteningReally InterestingVisitingVisitorsAmishUse Of Technology Author:Alyson Stoner
“We use technology to make it cheaper, better, and faster for the client. And then if you have the most flow, you can win. Now, having said that, Silicon Valley wants to take on this business. They think they see an opening.” IfsThinkingWantSaidUseWinningTechnologyFlowOpeningFasterValleysClientsCheaperSiliconSilicon ValleyYou Can Win Author:Jamie Dimon
“It's to a younger people's advantage to work with evolving computer technologies that provide so many ways to explore the use and distribution of text, including sound, images and motion.” PeopleWayUseSoundTechnologyComputerAdvantageIncludingEvolveDistributionComputer Technology Author:Stephen Vincent Benet
“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
“When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.” UseTechnologyModernToolsDevicesTerritory Author:Beck
“Trying to use all the existing technologies that were out there wouldn't work for us because none of them were flexible. Everything was rigid in some way, so we had to go on a manhunt, essentially for something that was a viable technology. So it was a good four-months of just designing and figuring out the lights.” WayTryingUseLightTechnologyFourDesignMonthsGoes OnFlexible Author:Christine Bieselin Clark
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The other dynamic keeping the stock market up - both for technology stocks and others - is that companies are using a lot of their income for stock buybacks and to pay out higher dividends, not make new investment,. So to the extent that companies use financial engineering rather than industrial engineering to increase the price of their stock you're going to have a bubble. But it's not considered a bubble, because the government is behind it, and it hasn't burst yet.” UseGovernmentPayBehindsCompanyTechnologyHigherIncreaseInvestmentFinancialIncomeBubblesEngineeringDividends Author:Michael Hudson
“Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we're not. For me, it is really exciting to take the cutting edge technology and take it as far as it can get virtually, use it to describe/control the musicology or the behavior of raw natural elements, and then plug it with a sound source which is the most acoustic one there is - like gamelan and pipe organ. So you get the extremes: very virtual and very physical. In that way you shift the physicality.” WayUseSeemsSoundNaturalTechnologyCuttingSourceBehaviorElementsExcitingEdgesExtremesOur TimeOrgansPipeAcousticsPlugsPhysicalityCutting EdgeRedefiningNatural ElementsPipe Organs Author:Bjork
“I'm more of a science head, so I was like, how would a guy use - if there were ghosts - technology to bring them back?” IfsUseGuyTechnologyGhost Author:Paul Feig
“The increase in chemicals and the increase in technology, like wi-fi and cell phone use that's going through our bodies all of the time is something that is big on my radar.” UseBodyBigsTechnologyIncreasePhonesCellsChemicalsCell PhoneRadar Author:Mason Jennings
“I want to build a wired ocean that helps us take back the seas from poachers and illegal fishers. To do this, we need the latest technology applied to large pelagic fish and sharks, surveillance technology that helps protect marine protected areas, and tags that help prevent shark finning and illegal fishing. We must use modern sensors to help protect our seas!” WantNeedsHelpingUseTechnologySeaModernProtectOceanAreasFishesFishingIllegalProtectedMarineSurveillanceSharksTagSensorsLatest TechnologyPoachers Author:Barbara Block
“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
“We can be using the same kind of technology, the same kind of techniques, but when we use it, we get something different.” KindDifferentUseTechnologyTechnique Author:Shigeru Miyamoto
“First they use technology to poison the planet, then they develop it further to escape from the planet they have poisoned.” FirstsUseTechnologyPlanetsPoison Author:N. Katherine Hayles
“I don't tend to use technology all that much. Of course, I can't avoid it - it's called the telephone nowadays. And I do a certain amount of email, work-related primarily, on it. But I don't do a lot of looking for things online.” I CanUseCertainCoursesTechnologyAmountRelatedOnlineTelephonesEmailWork Related Author:Melissa Leo