“Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision, with an error of only a few percent. That's pretty good figuring for 2200 years ago.” YearsEyeEarthBrainFeetAtheismPercentYears AgoToolsSticksErrorsPositive AtheismExperimentsPlusPrecisionZest Author:Carl Sagan
“A young person in Africa with a smartphone has more communications technology than the U.S. president had 25 years ago. So if the tools to change the world are now in everyone's hands, then the individuals now have the power that only governments and corporations used to have a couple of decades ago. I get excited by how that increases our capacity to be creative, and how that increases our capacity to create transformative things in the world.” IfsWorldYearsPersonsHandsGovernmentYoungUsedIndividualPresidentTechnologyCreativeCommunicationCoupleCapacityYears AgoToolsIncreaseExcitedDecadesCorporationsChanging The WorldBe CreativeSmartphonesCommunication Technology Author:Jason Silva
“About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie.” YearsMadeHandsNextComedyDoorsWallYears AgoToolsRadioHolesApartmentFistsComedy Movie Author:Klaus Kinski
“Wine lovers have known for centuries that decanting wine before serving it often improves its flavor. Whatever the dominant process, the traditional decanter is a rather pathetic tool to accomplish it. A few years ago, I found I could get much better results by using an ordinary kitchen blender.” YearsFoundProcessResultsKnownCenturyLoversOrdinaryYears AgoToolsWineAccomplishTraditionalKitchenServingDominantFlavorPatheticWine LoversBlenders Author:Nathan Myhrvold
“[Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers] A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the strength of his body, managed to feed his wife and children, so that through him the race survived. You on the other hand, armed with all the modern means of production, multiplying the productive capacity of the cave man a million times — you are incompetents and muddlers, you are unable to secure to millions even the paltry amount of bread that would sustain their physical life. You have mismanaged the world, and it shall be taken from you.” MenWorldYearsMeanChildrenBodyHandsRaceBrainMillionsTakenWifeGroupsModernAmountCapacityYears AgoToolsProductionsBreadSecureProductiveWealthySurvivedCavesNew YorkersMultiplying Author:Jack London
“About three years ago, I started an exercise in openness and inclusiveness to create new digital tools for magic - tools that could eventually be shared with other artists to start them off further on in the process and to get them into the poetry faster.” YearsArtistThreeProcessTechnologyMagicExerciseYears AgoToolsFasterDigitalOpennessThree YearsInclusivenessDigital Tools Author:Marco Tempest