Technology Sayings
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Technology does not drive change -- it enables change.
(Unknown)
When
you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and
you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your
technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
Our
inventions are want to be pretty toys, which distract our attention
from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Technology
is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do
not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
Technology is the drug of choice for most Americans. Source unknown Theory: when you have ideas. Ideology: when ideas have you.
I
claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are,
therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the
wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American philosopher and author.
Persons
grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to
pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with
electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns
latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic
autonomy.
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.