Technology
- Block (data storage), the practice of storing electronic data in equally-sized units
- Block-level element in the HTML markup language
- Block (telecommunications), a unit of data transmission
- Block (programming), a group of declarations and statements treated as a unit
- Block (Internet), technical measures to restrict users' access to certain internet resources
- Boom Blox, a 2008 video game for the Wii console from EA, previously known as Blocks
- Blocks (C language extension), an extension to the C programming language designed to support parallel programming
- Non-blocking (disambiguation), for computers running multiple programs at once, it is important for no single task waiting for completion of an operation to indefinitely block the processing of any other task
- Unicode block, a named range of codepoints in Unicode
- Block elements, a class of Box-drawing characters
- Block Number (aircraft), a method of differentiating between groups of aircraft of the same type that have minor modifications
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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 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)
“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)