Category: technology...
- keeping technology in its place, using it to simplify life, not complicate it
- When the word technology was first used in English in the 17th century, it referred to a discussion of the applied arts only and gradually these "arts" themselves came to be the object of the designation
- a degree of specialization in toolmaking was achieved by the time of Neanderthal man, 70,000 BC
- Technology is the instrumental ordering of human experience within a logic of efficient means, and the direction of nature to use its powers for material gain. (D. Bell)
- Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. (M. Frisch)
- Technology is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. (CP Snow)
- Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge. (D. Boorstin)
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