War created the conditions for great advances in technology...without war men would not traverse oceans in hours, travel in space, or microwave popcorn.
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand.
Technology - with all its promise and potential - has gotten so far beyond human control that its threatening the future of humankind.
It bears emphasizing: our traditional ways of thinking have ignored - and virtually made invisible - the relationship between people and technology.
Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.
Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.
There are parts of the country in America, in the Midwest, where wind is a big resource, and we should absolutely use it. But to try and apply it nationally doesn't make sense. There are technologies that will work that are appropriate to certain reg...
The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.
But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.
The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.
At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.
For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.
That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age.
Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Internet is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.
In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.
The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wasn't this amazing amount of magazines and information about them.
The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.
He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.
Information paints no picture, sings no song, and writes no poem.
If he ever changes his stance on something, it's because he's received new information.
Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.
