Technology
- Comet Hopper, a mission proposed to NASA and known as CHopper
- Chopper (archaeology), a type of crude stone tool
- Chopper (electronics), a switching device
- Chopper (propeller), a design for boat propellers
- Meatchopper coupling, a railway train coupling
- Optical chopper, a revolving disk with cut-outs to modulate light
- The part of a mechanical siren that rapidly cuts the flow of air to make a sound, closely fitted to the stator assembly
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“Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power ... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)
“The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)