Technology

By Danny Hillis

Technology is everything that doesn't work yet.

— Danny Hillis


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Danny Hillis is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and scientist who pioneered parallel computers and the “Thinking Machines” company.

See: Everything That Doesn’t Work Yet by Kevin Kelly.

This quote is a playful extension of Alan Kay’s observation that “technology is anything that was invented after you were born.”

Seymour Papert, mathematician and computer scientist:

That’s why we don’t argue anymore about whether the piano is corrupting music with technology.


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