#technological

Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#badly #biggest #both #changes #done

In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#camera #classical #i #modification #oil

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#efficient #ever #invented #machine #man

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#human #human progress #maybe #our #overshadowed

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#being #consciousness #electronic #extension #form

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#cultural #despair #emerge #feeling #great

Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority. ↗

— Kim Il-sung

#boast #defeat #imperialists #otherwise #superiority

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#aggression #certainty #comes #form #gone

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#every #feeling #formless #inadequate #language

I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#best #better #better off #book #date