Quotes About Technology

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

if the Net is so crucial, what happens if the Net goes down? It may have to go down a few times before we learn how to defend it properly, before we catch on that civilization depends on it for survival.

The scale of forces, this time, is planetary; the scope is centuries; the stakes are what we call civilization; and it is all taking place at the headlong speed of self-accelerating human technologies and climatic turbulence. Talk of "saving the planet" is overstated, however. Earth will be fine, no matter what; so will life. It is humans who are in trouble. But since we got ourselves into this fix, we should be able to get ourselves out of it.

As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion.

I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology.

no experience feels real anymore—just filtered and retouched, edited and tagged. How we create curated versions of ourselves until we don't know who we really are. How our entire species is sleepwalking toward oblivion. How survival doesn't seem like a possibility. How time doesn't feel like it's passing anymore, just running out.

For all her slobbish behaviour, Lydia still had a mind in there somewhere, and she knew more about Tech-Green than she ever let on to Patti, Ari was sure.

We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the torrent of information and entertainment pouring from ever-open electronic jaws. It could end by stupefying us.

I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of equipment or a new technology, there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game.

From a crude rocket in a weedy field to Explorer and beyond, the human race had broken the bonds of gravity to which they had been chained since the beginning of time.

advanced technology is converting many industries into factories full of robots raises questions about work, leisure, and meaning for life. The proliferation of nuclear weapons creates a morbid fear of the destruction of the human race which undermines the moral and ethical foundations of our society.

Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.

The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a challenge and opportunity beyond imagination.

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.

An operating system is the great facilitator; it is the great protector; it is the great illusionist.

Does wilderness exist because we do not know everything, and if we did, would there be no wilderness? As we increase mastery of our world through the spread of technology, is there a corresponding loss of wilderness?

My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.

I didn't have a cell phone, and as a result I hadn't thought much about what one would do with them, other than irritate people around me.

The use of market values and technology as a social barometer has devalued the worth of individuals, rendered irrelevant the quality of their lives, and stunted their creativity.

The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!

Back in the time when life was easy, the Internet would have told me what I needed to know. The great thing about the Internet was it didn't care why you were asking.