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Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. -Max Frisch.
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. -Max Frisch.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
It is useless to send armies against ideas.
It is useless to send armies against ideas.
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. read more
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.
Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running read more
Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
It is not always possible to know what one has learned, or when the dawning will arrive. You will continue read more
It is not always possible to know what one has learned, or when the dawning will arrive. You will continue to shift, sift, to shake out and to double back. The synthesis that finally occurs can be in the most unexpected place and the most unexpected time. My charge ... is to be alert to the dawnings.
Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates read more
Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'.
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.
