Technology would have long ago made privacy impossible, except that this had only made it more precious and desirable - - and in the close confines of starship life, respect for another's privacy had...
When we asked college students how they adapted to the tidal wave of new technology, one explained, "It's only technology if it happened after you were born."
Technology is everything that doesn't work yet.
It's hard to get motivated fixing a compile-time syntax error when you can buy a powder that turns a house into a monster.
And I thought Ereaders could not become any more dreadful.
I'll make a book on learning how to be a complete moron someday, and I'm sure no one will buy it, because everyone will have mastered that already by the time I gather enough moronism to process it...
Sex has changed drastically over the years due to technology. The World Wide Web has boosted the sex market and made sex ever present. No one has to work hard anymore with sexting, Tango, Skype, and...
Electronic communication has transmuted conversations into durable and accessible records. Revisionist history has gone the way of the phone booth.
Progress just means bad things happen faster.
the Internet is brilliantly efficient at shifting information from the hands of those who have it into the hands of those who do not.
He had dabbled in a thing which he had not understood. And had, furthermore, committed that greater sin of thinking that he did understand. And the fact of the matter was that he had just barely...
Although Lucifer had accelerated the process, it has begun decades earlier, when the coming of the jet age had triggered an explosion of global tourism
But was even this the end? A few mystically inclined biologists went still further. They speculated, taking their cues from the beliefs of many religions, that mind would eventually free itself from...
Besides, the mists that surrounded the compound could scramble anything from GPS to Santa Claus.
Today, your cell phone has more computer power than all of NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the moon. Video games, which consume enormous amounts of computer power to simulate 3-D...
Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.
I found myself wondering how the Empire had the technology to make long-distance holographic phone calls between planets light-years apart, and yet no one had figured out how to make a...
Then, on the evening of February 11, 2045, an avatar's name appeared at the top of the Scoreboard, for the whole world to see.
I don't trust electronics. Anything manufactured after the forties is suspect - and doesn't seem to have much liking for me. You name it: cars, radios, telephones, TVs, VCRs - none of them seem to...
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It's seductive, to live in a virtual space, especially when the real world isn't what you want it to be.
Thus it is that the Internet, once heralded as an exciting new medium of communication, is now little more than a vast mail-order catalogue.
- The renegade robots are now long dead, the metal ones rusted, the human ones bled.
Nothing with meat inside it could outrun metal and silicon.
Eddy Cue, who was in charge of the store, predicted that Apple would sell a million songs in six months. Instead, the iTunes Store sold a million songs in six days.
By this point Jobs had poured close to $50 million of his own money into Pixar - more than half of what he had pocketed when he cashed out of Apple - and he was still losing money at NeXT. He was hard...
Our job is to create a sense of purpose!
Why are there so many Smith's in the phone book? A: They all have phones!
Other people, too, worried about this new gap between the speeds of travel and messaging. An important London banker told Babbage he disapproved: "It will enable our clerks to plunder us, and then be...
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