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It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal read more
It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back read more
Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If read more
For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. - When Things Start to Think, 1999.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?
Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same read more
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. -Alan Watts.
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
