Technology
- Ping (networking utility), a computer network tool used to test whether a particular host is reachable across an IP network
- Ping, a pulse of sound in active sonar
- iTunes Ping, a social network for music built into Apple iTunes
- Ping (blogging), used for blogs, RSS, and related web services
- PING (software), software for disk cloning or backup
- "Ping" is the proper pronunciation of PNG, short for Portable Network Graphics, a bitmap image format
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Famous quotes containing the word technology:
“Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“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)