Image by jmatthew3 via FlickrAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. ClarkeElectronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm. – Joseph Wood Krutch
A world technology means either a world government or world suicide. – Max Lerner
It is a distinction between science and technology that technology must always be useful, whereas science need not be. – Sir Patrick Linstead
The characteristic of the exploding technological society is that changes sooner or later must take place in a fraction of the time necessary even to assess the situation. – John Wilkinson
One consequence of postwar technology has been the acceleration of change in our society, so that we seem to produce a new generation about every five years. – Ross MacDonald
We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable. – John Boynton Priestly
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