Technological Development quotes

Technological Development

15 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist

"In technological development, in production of material goods and creature comforts, we've challenged the very gods, but psychologically, emotionally, we're scarcely more than chimpanzees with bulldozers, baboons with big bombs."

Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

"Silicon Valley, after all, feeds off the existence of computers, the internet, the IT systems, satellites, the whole of micro electronics and so on, but a lot of that comes straight out of the state sector of the economy. Silicon Valley developed, but they expanded and turned it into commercial products and so on, but the innovation is on the basis of fundamental technological development that took places in places like this [MIT] on government funding, and that continues."

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