Citations:technology

English citations of technology

• 2021, Richard Fisher, Generational amnesia: The memory loss that harms the planet, BBC News (25 June 2021);

  Consider how we think about technology. The current generation's idea of technology means smartphones, cryptocurrencies or the internet, but it wasn't always so: technology was once centred on pneumatics or steam, rather than silicon. One computer scientist once quipped that technology should be defined as "anything that was invented after you were born".

Some inventions are so ubiquitous that we've totally forgotten that they even are technologies. As the writer Douglas Adams once pointed out: "We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often 'crash' when we tried to use them."

• 2002, Kevin Mitnick, “Preface”, in The Art of Deception, Indianapolis: Wiley, published 2002, →ISBN, page ix:

  Some novice hackers don't bother learning the technology, but simply download hacker tools to break into computer systems; they're called script kiddies.