Quotes About Technology

If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning.

Non si vive «in attesa di una catastrofe», la catastrofe è vivente nell'umanità contemporanea come una divinità terribile nel proprio santuario, e ogni avanzamento della Tecnica è un suo movimento in avanti, un segno della sua attiva, della sua irreprimibile presenza.

Nikada ljudi nisu tako puno komunicirali, nikada tako malo slušali jedni druge.

Pour fuir ce monde saturé d'écrans, mais vide d'intelligence.

Allora non si parlava di Internet, e-mail, Skype o sms. Allora le lettere d'amore partite dalla Francia impiegavano dieci giorni ad arrivare in Califonria. Allora, quando si scriveva «Ti amo», bisognava attendere la risposta tre settimane. E attendere tre settimane la risposta a un «Ti amo» era assolutamente disumano, per un ventenne.

Dengan semua TV, konsol permainan, komputer, dan ponsel di masa kini, layar dan jejaring menyerbu kehidupan kita sejak usia dini–dan membuat kita menjadi lebih buruk daripada lebih baik. [P. 199]

O de Ralph Waldo Emerson: «The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization». «El fin de la raza humana será que —eventualmente— morirá de civilización.»

video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia".

It is fair to say that in our quest for modernity we have demonstrated considerable ignorance concerning the impact of our inventions.

It's amazing what you can get on open source now if you actually use the right search engines to find the material.

There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.

I also wish I knew why millions of bright American children turn overnight into teenage nerds. The substitution of the automobile for the natural body, which our culture has effected in the most evil perversion of humanity since chivalry, is one cause; narcosis by drugs and Dionysian music is another.

The reigning economic system is a vicious circle of isolation. Its technologies are based on isolation, and they contribute to that same isolation. From automobiles to television, the goods that the spectacular system chooses to produce also serve it as weapons for constantly reinforcing the conditions that engender "lonely crowds.

This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation.

The society whose modernisation has reached the stage of integrated spectacle is characterised by the combined effect of five principal factors: incessant technological renewal, integration of state and economy, generalised secrecy, unanswerable lies, and eternal present . . . — The Society of the Spectacle

Dave hung up. And unplugged the phone. With a fierce and bitter pain he stared at it, watching how, over and over again, it didn't ring.

You know, if you're Guy Kawasaki and you create a car that gets 500 miles a gallon with zero emissions, people on the Internet would say: 'I could have done that in half an hour, and it's been done before. What's the big deal? I expected something more from him.' Meanwhile, they didn't do it, right? They're still living at home with their mothers.

I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well.

Managements can now view computer screens, capture computer keystrokes, identify websites frequented and track workers' whereabouts through GPS-enabled mobile phones, webcams and minuscule video cameras.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

The only way to know if the screening is saving lives is by doing a randomized trial. It's easy to forget this and assume that if technology can find more cancer, it will save more lives. Marketers exploit this assumption. Don't fall for it.

Even when money seemed to be material treasure, heavy in pockets and ships' holds and bank vaults, it always was information. Coins and notes, shekels and cowries were all just short-lived technologies for tokenizing information about who owns what.

The simulated weather in Edward Lorenz's new electronic computer changed slowly but certainly

La escritura daba la impresión que alejaba al hombre del conocimiento, que almacenaba sus recuerdos. También alejaba al orador del oyente, colocándolo a muchos kilómetros o años de distancia.