High technology has done
High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks – chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring Edward Abbey
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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks – chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring Edward Abbey
Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology. Edsger Dijkstra
As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India’s. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won’t become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to \”be\” college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with … Read more
One thing people underestimate is how markets don’t allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products. There’s not much leeway. The world is a lot more competitive than most people think, particularly in a high-technology area. If a company takes its eye off improving its products, if it tries to do anything … Read more
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. Bill Gates
I’ve been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I’ve been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science. Ann Druyan
We are living in a society that is totally dependent on science and high technology, and yet most of us are effectively alienated and excluded from its workings, from the values of science, the methods of science, and the language of science. A good place to start would be for as many of us as … Read more
Any demanding high technology tends to develop influential and dedicated constituencies of those who link its commercial success with both the public welfare and their own. Such sincerely held beliefs, peer pressures, and the harsh demands that the work itself places on time and energy all tend to discourage such people from acquiring a similarly … Read more
In our age of nuclear and biological weapons and the ever more efficient exploitation of nature, the mix of high technology and an ethos of domination could take us to an evolutionary dead end. Riane Eisler
Just as one year in a dog’s life is equivalent to seven years in a human life, one year in the high-technology business is like seven years in any other industry. Regis McKenna