Quotes About Technology

The easiest way to witness the stupidity and misplaced hopes of humanity is to watch, for twenty minutes, a human using a leaf blower. With this machine, the man was saying, I will murder all quiet. I will destroy the aural plane. And I will do so with a machine that performs a task far less efficiently than I could with a rake.

This is the peculiar problem of constant connectivity: any silence of more than a few hours provokes apocalyptic thoughts.

Your tools have elevated gossip, hearsay and conjecture to the level of valid, mainstream communication.

You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You're at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you're staring at a screen

But the tools you guys create actually manufacture unnaturally extreme social needs.

Infocommunism.

People worried about our passing over into some robotic state, but we were so much like robots already, programmed and easy to manipulate.

Public-private leads to private-private, and soon you have the Circle running most or even all government services

and because total non-communication in a place like the Circle was so difficult, it felt like violence.

It was a sad place, especially after a day at the Circle, where all was made with care and love and the gift of a good eye.

Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.

The Circle had 90 percent of the search market. Eighty-eight percent of the free-mail market, 92 percent of text servicing. That was, in her perspective, a simple testament to their making and delivering the best product. It seemed insane to punish the company for its efficiency, for its attention to detail. For succeeding.

They downloaded another customer query, and Mae scrolled through the boilerplates, found the appropriate answer, personalized it, and sent it back.

There was a rumor that Project 9 engineers had figured out a way to replace the random jumble of our nighttime dreaming with organized thinking and real-life problem solving.

La vigilancia no puede ser el precio a pagar por ningún maldito servicio que recibamos.

But something about his inability to give in, to admit defeat, or to at least acknowledge the incredible power of the technology at Mae's command Ã¢â'¬Â¦ she knew she couldn't give up until she had received some sense of his acquiescence.

Prayers to God were rarely answered, while shouts into cyberspace always receive a response, even if misspelled and hateful.

Oh no. A leaf blower. The easiest way to witness the easiest way to witness the stupidity and misplaced hopes of all humanity is to watch, for twenty minutes, a human using a leaf blower. With this machine, the man was saying, I will murder all quiet. I will destroy the aural plane. And I will do so with a machine that performs a task far less efficiently than I could with a rake.

Ecco lo strano problema della costante connettività: ogni silenzio che duri più di qualche ora suscita pensieri apocalittici.

This was the common criminal pursuit of all contemporary humankind. Give my child an Ikea desk and twelve hours a day of sedentary typing. This will mean success for me, them, our family, our lineage. She would not pursue this. She would not subject her children to this. They would not seek these specious things, no. It was only about making them loved in a moment in the sun.

Surveillance shouldn't be the tradeoff for any goddamn service we get.

He was forever trying to find ways to stay inside and avoid engagement with humans in real space. And though he carried a low-intensity outrage about privacy issues, he prized convenience above all

There's nothing that could change our lives quicker than having the technology to access web-based services and communicate via text and email to providers of help and agency.

The elevator reads your ID, and then says hello.