Technology
- Magnetic cartridge, also known as pickup, a transducer used for the playback of gramophone records on a turntable or phonograph
- Pickup (music technology), an electromagnetic device which detects vibrations from a musical instrument (same as in Music below)
- Pickup tube, a type of cathode ray tube
- Magnetic pickup, an electromagnetic device returning electrical pulses generated by rotating gears
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Famous quotes containing the word technology:
“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 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)
“One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they’ll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)