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Wednesday 24th of April 2024

Technology Apps are a young person's game © 2016 Kwiple.com
Technology But the third most costly building is almost certainly the giant semiconductor fabrication plant being built by TSMC in Taiwan for about $20bn. When operational next year, the facility will contain clean rooms the size of 22 football pitches in which silicon chips will be manufactured at dimensions that redefine the meaning of wafer-thin. At just 3 nanometres, TSMC's wafers will be as thick as the length your fingernail grows in three seconds. John Thornhill, Financial Times, February 25, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Technology By 2016, technology no longer made American society look better to the outside world. Instead, technology offered a better look inside American society, and into individual American minds. Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom © 2021 Kwiple.com
Technology … a contrarian indicator of this growing industrialization of the service economy is the rapid and parallel growth of the concierge economy, in which very high- income consumers use their financial muscle to escape reliance on the defective, mass-produced services available to middle- and lower-income consumers. So there are concierge doctors on Park Avenue and mass-production doctors with HMOIs … In the concierge economy, the relationship between technology and work is turned on its head and information systems are used to supplement rather than replace the skills of employees. There are no digital scripts at the Goldman Sachs private bank. Simon Head, Mindless © 2016 Kwiple.com
Technology Eliezer Yudkowsky, co-founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, reckons that an alarmingly different kind of Moore’s Law is at work today: the minimum IQ needed to destroy the world drops by one point every 18 months. John Thornhill, Financial Times, May 13, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Technology In actuality, the most crucial choices about the future of ordinary voters and their children are probably made not by Brussels bureaucrats or Washington lobbyists but by engineers, entrepreneurs, and scientists who are hardly aware of the implications of their decisions, and who certainly don't represent anyone. But voters can't see them or address them, so they lash out where they can. Yuval Noah Harari © 2016 Kwiple.com
Technology Information technology is continuing to leap forward; biotechnology is beginning to provide a window into our inner lives – emotions, thoughts, and choices. Together, infotech and biotech will create unprecedented upheavals in human society, eroding human agency and, possibly, subverting human desires. Under such conditions, liberal democracy and free-market economics might become obsolete. Yuval Harari, The Atlantic, October 2018 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Technology My advice to anyone who wants to preserve a digital work is to print it. Robert Darnton, New York Review of Books, December 21, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Technology Nobody writing a love note with a quill ever said, “Why can't I send a dick pic?” Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, August 9, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Technology Social media’s mutation from Speaker’s Corner to Gin Lane roughly tracks the smartphone’s conquest of BlackBerry. It comes down, I think, to the diffuculty of typing anything of length, and therefore of nuance, on a touch screen. The currency of the internet changed from the paragraph to the sentence, from the blog to the tweet, from the word to the image. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, September 25, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Technology The technical is political. Yochai Benkler and David D. Clark, Dædalus, Winter 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Technology There is no existential comfort to be found in artificial wood, unchanged by time, none of the melancholy that paves our understanding and embrace of time and dying. It's not that it taunts us with comparative immortality. It speaks nothing. Nina MacLaughlin, Hammer Head © 2016 Kwiple.com
Technology To err is maybe to be human but to really foul things up you only need a phone. John Boyne, on his website for his novel, The Echo Chamber  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Technology We understand the threat to democracy posed by platform technology. But less has been said about the dangers posed to our financial system as “likes” become “buys”. Rana Foroohar, Financial Times, July 25, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Technology Whatever the technlogical advances of modern society —and they're nearly miraculous— the individualized lifestyles that those technologies spawn seem to be deeply brutalizing to the human spirit. Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging © 2016 Kwiple.com
Technology When we don't quite know what we are doing (even if we are doing it well), can we write a program that does it for us? Joel Mokyr, November 20, 2015, four months before AlphaGo, a program from Google DeepMind, won 4 out of 5 games playing against one the world's top three players of Go, a board game with simpler rules than chess but many more squares and possible moves, making winning much more dependent on recognizing inexplicable spatial patterns © 2016 Kwiple.com
 
Technology When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck. Paul Virilio © 2021 Kwiple.com