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We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.

The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world.

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.

Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.

People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.

From a technical point of view, there seemed to me to be absolutely no reason why - with the existing technology - we couldn't do very high quality audio, because whereas the boom in digital graphics is ongoing, the boom in digital audio has already happened.

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.

All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.

If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently.

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.

My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.