Technology
- Stabilizer (aircraft), surfaces to help keep aircraft under control. Includes:
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- Vertical stabilizer of airplanes
- Tailplane or horizontal stabilizer
- Stabilizer (ship), fins on ships to counteract roll
- Stabilizer, another name for bicycle training wheels
- Stabilizer, a kind of voltage regulator in electronics
- Gun stabilizer, or gyrostabilizer, a device that helps a moving tank's gunner to aim the gun
- Drilling stabilizer, part of the bottom hole assembly in oil drilling
- Sway bar, a bar linking the two sides of an automotive suspension
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“If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.”
—Freeman Dyson (b. 1923)
“Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamics that present an important challenge to imperative control and the industrial division of labor. The more blurred the distinction between what workers know and what managers know, the more fragile and pointless any traditional relationships of domination and subordination between them will become.”
—Shoshana Zuboff (b. 1951)