Contributed by Art Sprague
Those that fail to embrace technology will become its slave.
Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Max Frisch
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
Putt's Law
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.
Max Frisch
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience
it.
R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
"For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork."
-Neil Gershenfeld, When Things Start to Think, 1999
Scott McNeely
When computers (people) are networked, their power multiplies geometrically.
Not only can people share all that information inside their machines, but they
can reach out and instantly tap the power of other machines (people), essentially
making the entire network their computer.
Peter Drucker
In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term
perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is
not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change
in the human condition. For the first time - literally - substantial and rapidly
growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to
manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it.
Alan Watts
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that
they are one and the same process as the universe.