Technological Quotes

National boundaries these days are not that important because of transformative technological development. Now we are talking about the fourth industrial revolution.

Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter.

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way norms and standards change.

The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion?

We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.

Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

Technological measures are important, but equally important is... a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared responsibility.

The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.

A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters.

For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.

Bitcoin is a technological tour de force

Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.

Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

Twitter is more a cultural than a technological change.

There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.

As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.

Strategies for research and policy development must simultaneously address people's needs, the capacity of programs to provide good quality of care, and the range of technological options available.

In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference?

The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of the world's major economic powers.

The major problems facing the development of products that are safer, less prone to error, and easier to use and understand are not technological: they are social and organizational.

We would not be enjoying those cellphones and those tablets at the price where they are had it not been for globalization, both in terms of trade and in terms of constant technological innovation.

The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.

Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.

Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.

The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.

You always learn something about movies. Directing or acting, there's always something new. It's the technological thing; there's always something to learn.

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.

Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers.

Game design isn’t just a technological craft. It’s a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading.

Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.

Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.

Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about.

We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness.

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.

David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.

I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a time out from technological progress as we know it.