Quotes About Technology

The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700.

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer.

In January 2013, one could buy a Bitcoin for about $13. By late November, one Bitcoin would have set a buyer back over $1100.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

You can model experiments on computers now and then execute them, and you don't actually need a fully stocked lab.

Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

And nowadays, the idea of AI is not really science fiction anymore - it's just science fact.

That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.

Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.

I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays.

It's amazing what they can do with animation nowadays. It's really beautiful. The 3D stuff is out of hand.

Nowadays, people send rockets into space, and I think it does make you question if there's a God. They can make babies in a dish now! Everything we're seeing goes against what people always believed in.

Nowadays, ideas can meet and mate very much faster than before, and the Internet is only accelerating this process. So innovation is bound to accelerate.

In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

Everything is social media nowadays, everything is sports and entertainment.

I travel so much that life has become a matter of honing things down to the barest essentials. Nowadays, I almost never go anywhere with anything more than hand luggage - and a laptop.

Nowadays when you're shooting HD people will walk in front of the camera, it can just be rolling all the time - nobody cares.

The Internet is just a chance to do something. Nowhere else can you go, 'I have an idea, I can write this idea, and I can execute this idea.'

Nowhere is the power of the Internet for improving people's lives more evident than in health care.

When I grew up, I grew up in the middle of nowhere. I wasn't really able to have access to people other than like, my family, so being able to just have that access to people and technology to really change the world is incredible.

Now, as far as I know, nobody has ever put up the U.S.'s nuclear missiles on the Internet. I mean, it's not something I've heard about.

Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.