#techno

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope. ↗

— James Gunn

#change #character #characters #cope #environment

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#again #conducted #during #had #hoped

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#fewest #human #individual #lives #people

We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are out there today. ↗

— John W. Thompson

#deal #more #need #out #paradigm

Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors. ↗

— Hugh Hopper

#horrors #like #modern #modern technology #moments

So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#born #called #device #fingers #going

The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#display #harm #hope #minimum #should

Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology. ↗

— Serge Haroche

#atomic #clock #come #computer #contraction

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition. ↗

— Orrin Hatch

#beyond #competition #engaging #fair #go

We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data. ↗

— Reed Hundt

#carry #data #easily #instead #need