#technologies

Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#degradation #demand #dependence #environmental #foreign

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them. ↗

— Brian Eno

#always #come #everybody #import #job

In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP. ↗

— Edward Felten

#between #collision #copyright #creativity #decisions

People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#age #although #basically #cases #descriptions

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

Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor. ↗

— Claude Vorilhon

#death #disease #embrace #fears #free

As Michigan's voice on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I will continue working to make sure the next generation of advanced technologies and alternative fuel vehicles are made right here in America. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#alternative #america #committee #continue #energy

The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies. ↗

— Estelle Morris

#expanded #government #improved #increased #information

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission. ↗

— James Buchan

#been #carriages #catastrophic #century #electricity

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#development #economic #economic development #mandated #new