Technology
- Earth Departure Stage, the second stage of the Ares V and Block II Space Launch System launch vehicles
- Emergency Detection System, determines whether a manned space mission should be aborted
- Electronic Document System, an early graphical hypertext system
- Electronic Datasheet, a standard for field device description in CANopen based automation systems
- Explosive detection system, a mechanism for detecting explosive material
- Extended Data Services (now XDS), a standard for the delivery of metadata on NTSC video signals
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Famous quotes containing the word technology:
“Radio put technology into storytelling and made it sick. TV killed it. Then you were locked into somebody else’s sighting of that story. You no longer had the benefit of making that picture for yourself, using your imagination. Storytelling brings back that humanness that we have lost with TV. You talk to children and they don’t hear you. They are television addicts. Mamas bring them home from the hospital and drag them up in front of the set and the great stare-out begins.”
—Jackie Torrence (b. 1944)
“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)
“Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)