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Technology
Technology is a broad concept that deals with human as well as other animal species' usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects a species' ability to control and adapt to its environment. Technology is a term with origins in the Greek technología (τεχνολογία) — téchnē (τέχνη), ...
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Filter this CollectionAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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- Arthur C. Clarke
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- Letter to Science, Jan. 19, 1968
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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
- x Author:
- Thomas Carlyle
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Technology is the drug of choice for most Americans. Source unknown Theory: when you have ideas. Ideology: when ideas have you.
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However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.
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- Lewis Mumford
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The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
- x Author:
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.
- x Author:
- Octavio Paz
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- x Spoken by character (if from fictional work):
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.
- x Author:
- Marshall McLuhan
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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.
- x Author:
- Mahatma Gandhi
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- x Spoken by character (if from fictional work):
In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.
- x Author:
- John Ruskin
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- x Spoken by character (if from fictional work):
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
- x Author:
- George Orwell
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- x Spoken by character (if from fictional work):
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
- x Author:
- Lewis Mumford
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- x Spoken by character (if from fictional work):
We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.
- x Author:
- Edward Dahlberg
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Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
- x Author:
- Eric Hoffer
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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.
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Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.
- x Author:
- Arthur Koestler
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- x Spoken by character (if from fictional work):
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
- x Author:
- Henry David Thoreau
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Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
- x Author:
- J. G. Ballard
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- x Spoken by character (if from fictional work):
Technology does not drive change -- it enables change.
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Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.
- x Author:
- Albert Einstein
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