#techno

I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had. ↗

— Terry Riley

#dancers #equipment #fact #funky #good

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#back #billion #go #invented #keep

Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man’s inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,—in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home? ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#possessions #technology #travel #beauty

In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#ever #important #industrial #more #science

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#any #cycle #go #new #new technology

Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities. ↗

— Major Owens

#aware #close #communities #gap #help

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere. ↗

— Major Owens

#close #educational #everywhere #gap #happens

We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience. ↗

— Major Owens

#better #consistently #cost #end #experience

We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity. ↗

— Michael Oxley

#broadband #businesses #contributed #data #deployment

The U.S. and Israel probably lead the way in terms of venture investment in technologies companies focused on the security paradigm. That is quite encouraging. ↗

— John W. Thompson

#encouraging #focused #investment #israel #lead