Quotes About Technology

Wintermute was hive mind, decision maker, effecting changes in the world outside. Neuromancer was personality. Neuromancer was immortality.

That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: the most interesting applications turn up on the battlefield, or in a gallery.

Indeed, today, reliance on broadcasting is the very definition of a technologically backward society.

a trio of young office techs who wore idealized holographic vaginas on their wrists, wet pink glittering under the harsh lighting.

As individuals steadily lose degrees of privacy, so too do corporations and states.

William Gibson

Damien maintains, half-seriously, that followers of the footage comprise the first true freemasonry of the new century.

Don't," she said, "fingerprints.

Más que la tierra o el dinero, más que la cuna. Información. Eso es lo que importa.

Night City was like a deranged experiment in social Darwinism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on the fast-forward button.

I very much doubt that our grandchildren will understand the distinction between that which is a computer and that which isn't. Or, to put it another way, they will not know "computers" as any distinct category of object or function. This, I think, is the logical outcome of genuinely ubiquitous computing: the wired world. The wired world will consist, in effect, of a single unbroken interface. The

After she'd called for the car, they waited outside while it drove itself over.

I dislike calling them stubs," Lowbeer said. "They're short because we've only just initiated them, by reaching into the past and making that first contact. We should call them branches, as they literally are.

Identify yourself, please." Lucky Dragon ATMs all had this same voice, a weird, uptight, strangled little castrato voice, and he wondered why that was. But you could be sure they'd worked it out: probably it kept people from standing around, bullshitting with the machine. But Rydell knew

And it was like she could see herself there, on the gray gravel in front of Jimmy's, and the tall old cottonwoods on either side of the lot, trees older than her mother, older than anybody, and she was talking to a boy who was half a machine, like a centaur made out of a motorcycle, and maybe he'd been just about to kill another boy, or a few of them, and maybe he still would.

By day, the bars down Ninsei were shuttered and featureless, the neon dead, the holograms inert, waiting, under the poisoned silver sky.

The switch on Damien's Italian floor lamp feels alien: a different click, designed to hold back a different voltage

He drinks the vodka. He watches television. And every passing face is masked, mouths and nostrils concealed behind filters.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. It's not like I'm using, Case heard someone say, as he shouldered his way through the crowd around the door of the Chat. It's like my body's developed this massive drug defi- ciency. It was a Sprawl voice and a Sprawl joke.

The sound it made was like a world ending, like the wires that hold heaven snapping and coiling across the sky

The first public gas streetlight in the United States is lit in Baltimore, Maryland.

It matters because the emerging civic structures and spatial arrangements of the digital era will profoundly affect our access to economic opportunities and public services, the character and content of public discourse

In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on an uninhabited planet. Book One THE RISE OF ADOLF HITLER

We could just turn our phones and computers off – but we don't. And we don't blame ourselves for our lack of self-control: we blame our technology for being too addictive.