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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“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)
“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.”
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“Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body—we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!”
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