Shervin Pishevar Quotes

In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.

In a modern and innovative society, where advancements are plentiful and communication is instantaneous, science and technology are a part of everyday life.

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.

The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

The future of society is 100% dependent on scientific advances.

Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.

The right focus for the U.S. is on advanced manufacturing - something that requires innovation.

My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last 300 years is only a trailer.

Technology is the future, I have seen the third industrial revolution, and we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition.

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments.

You always need to be on the lookout for the next kind of great technology.

I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.