Development In Technology

Interesting fun facts, on the latest in technology – courtesy of Facebook pages ‘Colours of Nature’, ‘Ancestral Stories’, ‘Weird Facts’, ‘Unbelievable Facts’, ‘Today I Learned’, Science and facts, Crazy creatures, The Knowledge Factory, The study secrets etc… However, I do not know if they are true. Some of them sound really incredible.

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Technology - Quotes

I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance ... and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance ... to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money...as a result of the change. Although they never advanced this as their reason for resisting it. It was always the good of humanity that rested upon their hearts. - Isaac Asimov

I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can't just assume that every bit of new technology improves the quality of life; it's really in how the technology is used. What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet refection on who we are, and where we're going. - Alan Lightman

If we're ever going to get the world back on a natural footing, back in tune with natural rhythms, if we're going to nurture the Earth and protect it and have fun with it and learn from it – which is what mothers do with their children – then we've got to put technology (an aggressive masculine system) in its proper place, which is that of a tool to be used sparingly, joyfully, gently and only in the fullest cooperation with nature. Nature must govern technology, not the other way around. - Tom Robbins

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things. - Douglas Adams

The strongest impacts of an emergent technology are always unanticipated. You can’t know what people are going to do until they get their hands on it and start using it on a daily basis, using it to make a buck and u­sing it for criminal purposes and all the different things that people do. The people who invented pagers, for instance, never imagined that they would change the shape of urban drug dealing all over the world. We’re increasingly aware that our society is driven by these unpredictable uses we find for the products of our imagination. - William Gibson

The way to solve the conflict between human values and technology needs is not to run away from technology. That's impossible. The way to resolve the conflict is to break down the barriers of dualistic thought that prevent a real understanding of what technology is – not an exploitation of nature, but a fusion of nature and the human spirit into a new kind of creation that transcends both. - Robert M. Pirsig

We now stand in the vestibule of a vast new technological age – one that, despite its capacity for human destruction, has an equal capacity to make poverty and human misery obsolete. If our efforts are wisely directed – and if our unremitting efforts for dependable peace begin to attain some success – we can surely become participants in creating an age characterized by justice and rising levels of human well-being. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Technology - Quotes

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed. - Max Born

All of our exalted technological progress, civilization for that matter, is comparable to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal. - Albert Einstein

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man – the airplane, the automobile, the computer – says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. - Mark Kennedy

All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once. - Bill Watterson

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke

Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough. - Arthur C. Clarke

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all. - Arthur C. Clarke

Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything. - Jose M. R. Delgado

Flight from and hatred of technology is self-defeating. The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha – which is to demean oneself. - Robert M. Pirsig

History demonstrates that the advancement of technology is not a steady upward curve. There are flat periods, upwards spurts, and even reversals. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented. - R. Buckminster Fuller

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein

New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity. - Margaret Thatcher

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road. - Stewart Brand

Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal. - Albert Einstein

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. - Alvin Toffler

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. - Aldous Huxley

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible. - Alvin Toffler

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn’t help us know what to say. - Jonathan Sacks

Technology is an inherent democratizer. Because of the evolution of hardware and software, you’re able to scale up almost anything. It means that in our lifetime everyone may have tools of equal power. - Sergey Brin

Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born. - Alan Kay

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. - Bill Gates

Technology is the engine; the humanities are the steering wheel and the brakes. The humanities don't create nearly as much force for getting things done as technology does, but technology is just plain lousy at directing its energy or managing itself. - James Alan Garnder

Technology should have freed mankind from the burdens of life. Instead, it created new ones. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. - Bill Gates

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. - Steve Ballmer

There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper. - Jaron Lanier

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. - Douglas Adams

3D printer can print funcitonal tools.

Wow! Check this out! This is absolutely brilliant and awesome!

http://www.wimp.com/functionaltools/

Amazing Technology

This is truly amazing indeed! A tool of great help for carpenters, wood workers.

http://www.wimp.com/amazingtechnology/

Technology - The Next Leap?

Absolutely brilliant! Watch the video and be bowed over. Interesting to see what is their next step, and how they are going to introduce the new technology to the public.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/videoshow_ted/5231080.cms

If this link doesn't work, do a search on Google using this phrase
videoshow_ted/5231080

4 Things You Probably Never Knew Your Mobile Phone Could Do

This was circulating on the net. 

              There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies. Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival. Check out the things that you can do with it: 

One: Emergency Number

              The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile; network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. Try it out. 

Two: Have you locked your keys in the car? 

              Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their mobile phone from your cell phone. 

              Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. 

           Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other 'remote' for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk). 

           Editor's Note: It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a mobile phone!' 

Three: Hidden Battery Power Three: Hidden Battery Power 

              Imagine your mobile battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370# Your mobile will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your mobile next time. 

Four: How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone? 

              To check your mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone!: * # 06 #, a 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. When your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. 

              You probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either. If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones. 

           This is the kind of information people don't mind receiving, so pass it on to your family and friends.