We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
Technology Quotes
The top names on this page are sociologists and engineers, among them Charles Perrow, W. Brian Arthur and Tim Berners-Lee, with the novelist John Brunner. Aldous Huxley, in Ends and Means (1937), says technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Freeman Dyson, in Infinite in All Directions (1988), says the technologies with the deepest effects on human life are usually simple. Eric Hoffer, in 1973, wondered about a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs.
The one flagged entry is “Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology,” credited to Larry Niven and marked misattributed.
The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
The NET is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.
The Republic of Technology where we will be living is a feedback world.
The bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be.
Technique without art is shallow and doomed. Art without technique is insulting.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.