Owned technologies are easy to grasp because they're so prevalent. They're technologies that are developed and shaped by a defined group, usually… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
As Michigan's voice on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I will continue working to make sure… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
For centuries, cultures throughout the world have used indigenous technologies to navigate life's complexities. From navigator-priests in Micronesia to mystics in India,… — Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey Copy Share Image
The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science,… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of people who right now are worried that people are going down frivolous paths, like inventing new… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves. — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
Cutting edge technologies have allowed us to utilize coal's diverse potentials. Not only are we using coal in cleaner and more environmentally… — Peter Roskam Copy Share Image
Not only will the development of coal-to-liquid and environmentally friendly sequestration technologies increase our energy security, but these advancements will also help… — Peter Roskam Copy Share Image
I'm pretty skeptical about a lot of the toys on the market, especially for young kids. Most of them just add these… — Mitchel Resnick Copy Share Image
Tax incentives might spur hiring in the short run, but how lasting are those gains if the jobs expire with the tax… — Myron Scholes Copy Share Image
I am impressed with the innovation in the wireless marketplace. The Blackberry, the iPhone, the Pre, and other smart devices are breakthrough… — Julius Genachowski Copy Share Image
I actually think that one of the most dangerous phenomena is the bowing to expertise, whether it's in international relations or how… — Wes Boyd Copy Share Image
History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Epistemology has always been affected by technologies like the telescope and the microscope, things that have created a radical shift in how… — Ken Goldberg Copy Share Image
Web searching and cellphone use both flourish in the wee hours. Before the dawn of the web, I would stay up watching… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
Technology is not a panacea. I refuse to work on technology to track users, analyze usage patterns, watermark information, censor, detect drug… — Bram Cohen Copy Share Image
What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
I'm trying to avail myself of the various technologies to get the message that Washington needs to be cleaned up, that the… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
Blu-ray and the technologies emerging around it are the premiere format for reproducing what we do as filmmakers. There's more space on… — Michael Mann Copy Share Image
Facebook draws from the public and public-interest sphere, a simultaneously bold and modest step towards acknowledging that our new networked technologies deeply… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
In my first company, Seer Technologies, where I was chief technology officer, we shied away from the media. We watched every word… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
When I was building robots in the early 1990s, the problems of voice recognition, image understanding, VOIP, even touchscreen technologies - these… — Colin Angle Copy Share Image
The Egyptian Revolution makes it clear, if anybody was in doubt, that digital technologies are going to play a powerful role in… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light,… — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs do not try and create new types of smartphone technologies now because they know it's pointless: They're going to get sued… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
If we look at the life cycle of technologies, we see an early period of over-enthusiasm, then a 'bust' when disillusionment sets… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
New technologies can be used for destructive purposes. The answer is to develop rapid-response systems for new dangers like a bioterrorist creating… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to… — Yoshihiko Noda Copy Share Image
People say we're running out of energy. That's only true if we stick with these old 19th century technologies. We are awash… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Innovation is what America does best. Whether it is the Apollo Project to the moon, developing the most advanced defense technologies available,… — Martin Heinrich Copy Share Image
I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about… — Mitchel Resnick Copy Share Image
I remain as committed as ever to working across party lines with anyone who believes we must invest in the future of… — Jim Himes Copy Share Image
Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth,… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
To me, part of the magic of this era is that the very same innovations, discoveries, and technologies that are allowing us… — Kathleen Sebelius Copy Share Image
When you become fluent with language, it means you can write an entry in your journal or tell a joke to someone… — Mitchel Resnick Copy Share Image
People want to do good things, they just need a prod sometimes, and what Twitter and other technologies that connect people are… — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
I think that it will be the mobile technologies, both from the enterprise and the consumer side, where super unicorns will come… — David Sze Copy Share Image
Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
