I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.
I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.
The DJ still has the relationship with the people, I believe. I don't know to call the DJ 'the ambassadors' or what, but we still are connecting the dots, getting the good stuff and passing it on to the people. DJs still have relevance, even with the technology that elevates the DJ beyond being a selector.
The great growling engine of change - technology.
Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a 'living' document.
Technology is an incredible tool - it connects people to each other, creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way.
Ministry is just ZZ Top with technology.
When dealing in the technology, it becomes a question of whether you overuse something. I think that's worse than having something technologically available to you and not using it.
I think that's the challenge of our generation: if we are all technology natives, how do we live with influence both online and off, and how do we make sure that both of those aren't lacking in some type of deeper human connection and substance?
I don't know if I've owned a piece of technology that I hated - I don't think I would have owned it then.
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
Baidu and Google are great companies, but there are a lot of things you can do outside them. Just as electricity and the Internet transformed the world, I think the rise of modern A.I. technology will create a lot of opportunities both for new startups and for incumbent companies to transform.
When I was growing up, there wasn't too much technology. There weren't so many channels that we were glued to on TV. We had to go outside and create our games. Kids had the habit of being active and exercising, just enjoying the fresh air.
Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.
Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
We've had the facial recognition technology out for use for over two-and-a-half years now, and in those two-and-a-half years, we've never had any reported misuse of law enforcement using the facial recognition technology.
Technology has opened up the music business 100-fold and provided space for all kinds of new faces.
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.
Back in the days of Apollo, sending humans to the moon was the only viable way to get the scientific data we wanted. But now, with our computer and robotics technology, there's very little an astronaut can do on Mars that a well-designed rover can't.
There's talent everywhere; we just have to make technology accessible to them.
I discovered my path to independence through technology as well as the potential for a global lifeline for trans people around the world who were looking for the same.
If women want to ensure themselves a meaningful place in the future, they need to be among those determining how the technology will be used. They need to be among those deciding whether it will be the great leveler or simply serve to worsen social divisions.
If anything, the impact of digital technology is creating bigger brands and bigger superstars.
Our company has been very forward-thinking about digital technology and the opportunity that it gives us. As we move into a world where we have more and more devices at our disposal, that really means more and more opportunities for the Walt Disney Co. to reach you: through our entertainment, through all of our divisions.
There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.
I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.
The blockchain concept was pioneered within the context of crypto-currency Bitcoin, but engineers have imagined many other ways for distributed ledger technology to streamline the world. Stock exchanges and big banks, for example, are looking at blockchain-type systems as trading settlement platforms.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.
If I got the option of going into outer space and hanging out there for a day and then coming back home and dying the next day, or just waiting around to see if there's any opportunity for the technology to develop so that I might experience outer space sometime in the future, I would probably take the ride today and die tomorrow.
If someone is trying to skip the struggle - which is the creative job - our machines today, the technology that we have, can help the person, but it is only momentary. On the other hand, if you are creative, you have the skill, and you are hardworking, technology can only make you superior.
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
I always say, 'Be near science and technology, and you will never fail.'
If we want to be the banker to every Indian as we want to be, then we will have to use technology.
We underestimate our people. Given a challenge, most of our people will do it, especially the youngsters who take to technology like duck to water.