#technological

...apart from the seemingly magical internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953...The wonders portrayed in THE JETSONS, the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass...Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down compared to what people saw two or three generations ago. ↗

— Tyler Cowen

#technological-progress #age

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

As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'. ↗

— Sam Brownback

#consider #fast #free #free market #give

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#events #i #i think #instead #more

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#singularity #technological #will

Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks. ↗

— Dee Hock

#acceptance #any #around #centuries #device

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#altered #based #basis #deeply #discoveries

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

— Northrop Frye

#efficient #ever #invented #machine #man

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